What is a good moveset for Porygon Z?

Mine has the ability Adaptability. It knows:

Tri Attack: STAB incresed by ability, good power, high accuracy, good chance to burn, paralyze, or freeze.

Nasty Plot: Greatly increases Sp. Attack.

Dark Pulse: Good power, high accuracy, decent chance to cause flinching. Deals with Ghost types.

Ice Beam: Good power, high accuracy, chance to freeze, type coverage.

asked Jul 29, 2010 by trachy
edited Jul 1, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion

Porygon @ Evolution Stone
Trait: Analyze
EVs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 104 SAtk / 56 SDef
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Recover
- Tri Attack
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam

commented Feb 17, 2012 by trachy

Porygon2 @ Evolution Stone
Trait: Analyze
EVs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 16 SAtk / 144 SDef
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Recover
- Toxic
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt

commented Feb 17, 2012 by trachy

18 Answers

Oh man, Porygon and its family are my all-time favorite Pokemon, and I can proudly say, from raising two dozen Porygon and half a dozen Porygon-Z, that this moveset is perfect...Well, almost.

The only change I'd make is to switch Dark Pulse with Thunderbolt, for a Bolt-Beam combo. This way, you get coverage against Flying and Water-types. Ghost attacks can't hit you either, so you won't have a problem against most Ghost-types anyway.

Other than that, I definitely see nothing else wrong with this great moveset on a great Pokemon!

answered Jul 29, 2010 by ~-~WILL~-~

Thats a great moveset! Ill give you some other options, too, though.

Special Sweeper: Ice Beam(coverage), Thunderbolt(coverage), Tri Attack(STAB), Natsy Plot(Raises Sp. Attack). Other Options: Discharge(because it has a 30% chance of parylyzing), Psychic(coverage), Shadow Ball(coverage) Signal Beam(coverage).

answered Jul 29, 2010 by Swampert

natsy plot!

commented Jul 17, 2012 by IrwinPink

Weather abuser (Rain)

Suggested ability: adaptability
Suggested ability: Life orb

Thunder-Perfect accuracy in rain.

hyper beam/Tri Attack-STAB; hyper beam normally isn't a good combination competitively, but when you think about Porygon-Z's High special attack, the boost from the life orb, STAB, and his ability, and it can do dangerous amounts of damage. Tri-attack is still there if you want reliability.

Hidden power[water]/[grass]-Deal with bulky waters like Swampert and Quagsire, or get the rain boost of hidden power.

Ice beam-Covers dragon types or bulky water types like Swampert and quagsire.

answered Jun 7, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion
edited Oct 1, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion

Oh, I never knew t-bolt gets boosted by rain. I thought it was only thunder.

commented Jun 12, 2011 by AleX647

AleX647
It doesn't
rain doesn't affect anything to t-bolt,
but it raises the thunder's accuracy to 100

commented Mar 26, 2012 by MiniNinetales

Porygon-Z @ Life Orb

Trait: Adaptability

EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)

Nasty Plot
Tri Attack
Dark Pulse
Hidden Power Fighting

Nasty Plot gives SpA a nice boost, just find the right time to use it.
Tri Attack is the most Powerful move on the set, it's boosted by STAB and Adaptability giving it 160 power.
In other words, Tri Attack gets the same boost as a non-STAB Super Effective move.
Dark Pulse is there to take care of Ghost types who wall the other moves.
Hidden Power Fighting is Porygon-Z's best bet against Steel types who resists the other moves.
If you want a more speedy approach, Agility is an option over Nasty Plot to give it more speed for sweeping.
If you opt for Agility, make sure to change the nature to Modest to give Porygon-Z more power.