What is a good moveset for Noivern?

Question

If you have a good competitive moveset for Noivern, post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for any of its pre-evolutions can also be shared on this thread.

Be sure to include full set details in your post, e.g. items, abilities, natures and EVs. Some detail, including the intended game mode for your set, is also appreciated. Access the full list of guidelines here.

Noivern Pokédex and learnset for reference.

Answer 1

Double Battle (Rain Team):

Noivern@Eject Pack
Trait: Telepathy
Nature: Timid (+Speed, -Attack)
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Sp. Attack, 4 HP
Role: Special Sweeper

Moves:

• Draco Meteor: STAB, once it's used, you switch out because of the Eject Pack.
• Hurricane: STAB. When it's raining, it has I infinite accuracy. It can also hit Pokemon using Bounce or Fly.
• Heat Wave: Covers Ice weakness, and does spread damage.
• Tailwind/Roost: Increases teams speed/Restores the users HP

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  If you are using Drizzle (Pelipper, Politoad) then I would use a Moveset like this respectively:

Pelipper@Damp Rock
Trait: Drizzle
Nature: Modest (+Sp. Attack, -Attack)
EVs: 252 Sp. Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
Role: Rain Set Up/Special Sweeper

Moves:

• Scald
• Hurricane
• Tailwind
• Icy Wind/Protect

Politoad@Damp Rock
Trait: Drizzle
Nature: Modest (+Sp. Attack, -Attack)
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Sp. Attack, 4 Defense
Role: Rain Set Up/Special Tank

Moves:

• Weather Ball
• Substitute
• Rest
• Sleep Talk

Comments

Nice but heat wave in rain? It will be too weak to cover anything

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Yeah. I would do a steel type move, but Noivern doesn't learn any other than Iron Tail.

Answer 2

Noivern @ Blunder Policy
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Boomburst
- Hurricane
- Dragon Pulse
- Focus Blast

Keep using hurricane or focus blast (whatever helps), after either of the attacks miss, speed gets raised by 2x. Now use boomburst or dragon pulse for STAB.

Comments

It's already insanely fast, out speeding pretty much everything in uu. Why use a blunder policy?

Answer 3

No Throat Spray Noivern yet? What the heck.
Gen 8 NU

Noivern @ Throat Spray
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Boomburst
- Dragon Pulse
- Hurricane / Air Slash
- Flamethrower

Boomburst is a strong move that activates Throat Spray. Dragon Pulse is STAB. Hurricane is also STAB, and you could use Air Slash instead if you want more accuracy. Flamethrower deals with steel types.

Answer 4

Gen 6 OU
Noivern (M) Choice Specs
Role: Fast Special Sweeper
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
- Heat Wave
- Boomburst
- Hurricane
- Draco Meteor

Heat Wave may burn the target(s). Boomburst is really strong. Hurricane may confuse the target and has STAB and Draco Meteor is STAB for Noivern.

Comments

Why 4 Attack EVs with no physical attacks? Why Hasty over Timid?

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Leftovers is kinda weird on a very frail Pokémon, this set seems like the perfect set for Choice Specs

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Hasty nature is (+Spe,-Def) not (+Spe,-Atk) I think the nature you're looking for is Timid (+Spe,-Atk).

Answer 5

Dragon Dance Noivern?

Gen 8 RU

Noivern
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Acrobatics
- Brick Break

In Gen 8, Noivern got access to Dragon Dance. Dragon Dance boosts Noivern's attack and speed. Dragon Claw is STAB. Acrobatics is also STAB that has double power since Noivern isn't holding an item. Brick Break deals with steel types.

Answer 6

Hush! (Noivern) @ Petaya Berry
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Substitute
- Boomburst
- Dragon Pulse
- Flamethrower

-Substitute until Petaya triggers (+1 Sp.A,
then just go for the sweep.
-Boomburst deals more damage than
STAB Air Slash.
-It doesn't like Ice Shard.

Answer 7

Gen 7 RU Cleaner

Noivern @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Frisk / Infiltrator
EVs: 204 HP / 252 SpA / 52 Spe
Modest Nature
- Hurricane / Air Slash
- Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
- Flamethrower / Heat Wave
- U-Turn

- Heat Wave: Heat Wave covers the Steel types that resist both your Stabs when cleaning
- Hurricane / Air Slash: Flying Stab, Air Slash can be substituted to make up for Hurricane's shaky accuracy, but the drop in power can prevent certain KOs.
- Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor: Dragon Stab, Draco Meteor may be much stronger especially when paired with Choice Specs, but it is essentially a one time use nuke to finish off your opponents last Pokemon.
- U-Turn: Used to pivot off incoming switch-ins to pull momentum.

>This Pokémon is meant to come in and threaten and kill fast and frail Pokemon or pivot off their switch-ins to grab momentum and clean up weakened teams when the common switch-ins have fainted.

Answer 8

Noivern @Focus Sash
Ability: Infiltrator
Nature: Timid
EVs: I am not fussy, but high Speed and Sp. Atk but Defence or Hp is good too. I suggest (everyone suggest this) 4hp/252 speed/252 sp.atk

I like to use this as a wall breaker or chipping health from tanks.

Super Fang: Chipping down a tanks or a wall's health in half is always reccomended, thats why Focus Sash was installed as Noivern is most likely to get OKod in the first move so at least Noivern would be able to halve a tanky enemy's health down so it will make it easier for your other Pokemon to take it down.

Flamethrower/Boomburst: Flamethrower is good for Ice types but Boomburst does some solid damage, especially if after Super Fang.

Draco Meteor/Dragon Pulse: Draco Meteor is a solid attacking power, however, choice spec arn't included in this set so if you don't like the fact it's lowing it's Special Attack, got with Dragon Pulse.

Roost/U-turn: If you have a kinda tanky Noivern with high Defence and Special Defence EVs, it could likely survive a attack, which makes Roost benificial for survivblity, but if your Noivern is very fragile, you could always try to escape with U-turn.

Tips: Try getting rid of harzards like Steath Rock before deploying your Noivern, also reccomend saving Noivern for a bulk who usually dosnen't have strong attacking power.

Answer 9

My gen 9 doubles set

Noivern @ throat spray
Ability: infiltrator
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid nature
- Draco Meteor
- Boomburst
- Tailwind
- Defog / taunt / protect

123 speed with timid nature will out-speed many opponents, and 97 special attack is decent and can be great with the throat spray boost. Tailwind is to double you and your teammates speed. Boomburst is a very high damage spread move that will increase special attack with throat spray when used. Draco meteor is powerful stab made more powerful by throat spray boost. Defog is good for removing hazards, taunt is good to make opposing Pokémon not able to use status moves, or you could just use protect which is a good option too.