Share your best competitive movesets for Greninja on this thread! Movesets for Mega Greninja can also be posted here, as well as for Froakie and Frogadier.
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Greninja Pokédex and learnset for reference.
Greninja Physical attacker Ability: Protean / Torrent (Works fine with both) EVs: 252 Attack / 252 Speed / 4 HP Nature: Adamant or Jolly Held item: Life Orb / Flying Gem Moves Mat Block / Acrobatics Night Slash Water Shuriken / Waterfall U-Turn Explanation Life Orb will boost all the attacks you use but decreases HP. Mat block is mainly for double or triple battles, it will protect your active Pokemon while your other mons attack the opponents. Acrobatics and Flying Gem are simple alternatives if you do not want to use Mat Block. Night Slash does not need much explanation, STAB and high crit. ratio. Both water-type moves are great you can choose either one, it depends on how you want to use Greninja. U-Turn is great for scouting. Hope this helps.
This thing is my favorite with your battle bond greninja this will be perfect special attacker and spike abuse with high speed and high SpA
Greninja @ Waterium Z / Expert belt Ability: Battle Bond EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Modest Nature - Hydro Pump - Dark Pulse - Spikes - Surf / U-turn
For Waterium Z user use spikes then hydro vortrex and then go destroy your enemy with surf and dark pulse
Greninja @ Leftovers Ability: Protean Tera: Stellar EVs: 4 SpA / 252 HP / 252 Spe Hardy Nature - Water Shuriken - Dark Pulse - Ice Beam - U-turn
u-turn for scouting. ice beam is fast freezes, and coverage. dark pulse is STAB, like everything I guess. water shuriken is INCREDIBLE now it gets priority and multihit. This thing is sooooooo good.
Greninja @ greninjite Ability: protean EVs: 4 HP/ 252 SpA/ 252 Spe Timid/Modest nature -surf (STAB) -water shuriken (STAB) -dark pulse (STAB) -ice beam (Coverage) This greninja works best in Pokemon champions, but it still works in z-a
I think this will do it.
Greninja @ Life Orb Ability: Torrent / Protean EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Bashful Nature - Water Shuriken - Dark Pulse - Aerial Ace - Taunt
So basically Water Shuriken is a good and strong move that can hit multiple times. Water Shuriken can double or triple the damage from the first shuriken. Dark Pulse is great STAB and can flinch Pokemon. Aerial Ace covers at least 3 out of 5 of its weaknesses due to its typing. Taunt can stop Pokemon like Hariyama from using Belly Drum.
Hope this moveset helps!
