What are some of the best move combos in Pokemon you have found?

Question

I breed Pokemon in the game and am pretty good at IVs and EVs and such. I have thought of a few good tactics, such as

• Safe Guard and Outrage/Petal Dance/Thrash (avoids confusion ailment)
• Mimic and Imprison (permanent Disables last move)
• Swagger/Flatter and Psych Up/Haze (either gives you upped stats or resets theirs)
• Defense Curl followed by Roll Out (makes roll out stronger)
• Rain Dance and Thunder (Thunder never misses)
• Belly Drum and Rest (works best with a chesto berry. Maximizes attack)
• Sunny Day and Solar Beam (solar beam no longer needs to charge)
• Endure and Flail/Reversal (makes the attack moves really strong compared to normal)

What are some of the best move combos that you have found so far? :D
Explain your choices, and why they make good combos.

Please read all the answers before posting, to avoid duplicate answers. Yes, all 200+ of them.

And no full on movesets either, there are separate questions for that :-)

Comments

yeah. I kind of find that crazy.  just the average wanting to know something, and he/she makes 180 points on his/her only question as well as it being the most answered AND most voted (at 200, the second most being 86) post in the history of the pokebase. Jealous. Also to the people that asked why he/she only has 200 points on his/her wall, you can only receive a maximum of 200 points via upvotes from a single post.

Answer 1

Note this is a double battle strategy

A pokemon with Anger Point as a ability. Take for example. Pair him up with a pokemon that can learn Frost Breath or Circle Throw. They always result in Critical Hits. Anyways the pokemon i will be using is . Have use Frost Breath on your . Watch as your primeape get Anger Point activated and you get max attack and you can even give primeape something like a Choice Scarf to make it faster. Now sweep with your massive attack.

Comments

*Switches into resistant Pokemon

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Lolz *Primeape used Close Combat* *Mew sent out Frosslass*

UMADBRO?!

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"Frosslass come back" "Go Rotom-W"(Holding life orb) "Rotom-W used Trick" Now Primape has a Life Orb and Rotom-W has a Scarf. Sweep with Hydro Pump kill the others with Primeape

Answer 2

Rest+Shed skin=Full heal!!
(Every turn, it has a 1 in 3 chance of healing from a status condition like sleep)

Answer 3

Another combo for double battles:

You will need three Pokemon. A shedinja, a Spiritomb/Sableye, and a Pokemon with Skill Swap.

Start with the Shedinja and Skill Swap Pokemon. Use Skill Swap on Shedinja. Then, switch out Shedinja for Sableye/Spiritomb and use skill swap on them. The Sableye/Spiritomb is now invincible until someone uses a move that allows fighting moves to hit ghost types.

Note: A variation can be made where more Pokemon can be used if storm drain or lightning rod are in affect.

Comments

Um, I've seen somewhere that it is FORBIDDEN to switch, suppress or change the following abilities:

Truant
Multitype
Wonder Guard

But you can make them being copied, like Entertainment Durant.  (Truant)

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How the hell did this get upvoted???

Answer 4

double battle, gliscor, and something else with follow me. the trick is, the follow me poke probably wants focus sash and gliscor 2. following the other Pokemon could mean gliscor gets time to hone claws and gullioitine. also, walrein with the item that increases accuracy if slower (i believe zoom lens) and the move set of rest, sleep talk, fissure, sheer cold. considering walrein's speed, it will be more likly the auto ko moves will be more likly to hit, and can gain hp do it over and over again.

Comments

One hit moves are banneded for competetive use and why would you want a focus sash gliscor?

Answer 5

You can have a drifblim with the ability unburden and have recycle with a sitrus berry or a item that disaperes. When you use the sitrus berry your speed will go up and then you can use recycle to get it back and use the sitrus berry again to gain more speed while gaining more HP.

Answer 6

Absol + Super Luck + Scope Lens + Slash/Night Slash/Psycho Cut
Absol's critical-hit ratio raises to 1 of 2
with a Swords Dance he's even much stronger

Answer 7

well, this one might be considered a gimmick. but I have tried it, and it worked quite well actually. anyway, this strategy is really good to counter annoying defoggers . especially this **** named mandibuzz

send a hazard setter in on a defogger and use Spikes/SR/etc. one time. SR or web is recommended as the defogger might usually want to remove hazard until all the layers of that specific hazard is set up. when you know a defog is coming, switch to a fast Pokemon with defiant (Braviary or Bisharp). your attack will now be doubled because of the evasion drop combined with defiant.

Comments

That is not a move combo. That is a strategy. And it works well, it is not a gimmick. Braviary itself is a gimmick without Sheer Force, anyway, so Bisharp and Competitive Milotic are the best users of that strategy.
Milotic is pretty weak. It seems great on paper but is outclassed by pretty much every other defensive Water-type and offensively, there are better Pokémon so Defiant Bisharp is your best bet.

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tbh, bravery with sheer force is pretty terrible as the only real move it can abuse with sheer force is rock slide which isn't good on it anyway. bravery can be used in the coming ten 6 NU against golbat, but anyway. whats the difference between strategy and move combo?

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The spelling

Answer 8

Natural Gift + Recycle

Comments

I'm not sure if Natural Gift consumes the berry.

Answer 9

Fling + Recycle

Sitrus Berry + Recycle

Comments

I don't think Recycle can restore items lost to Fling.

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Sitrus Berry only activates at 1/2 health and below, so no unlimited health BTW

Answer 10

Heres one:

Breloom
Toxic Orb item
Toxic Heal ability

Substitute
Facade
Focus Punch
Spore

TROLLL

Answer 11

I forgot this one: taunt + sucker punch + prankster = total annihilation

Answer 12

Snorlax

Belly drum + Rest + Chesto berry + Stockpile x3 + Crunch

Works best with Snorlax, because when done at the right time, it turns him into a sweeping beast!

I just chose crunch because its a good high power move that snorlax learns, and isn't weak to much.

You could even replace crunch with baton pass!

Answer 13

Azumaril

Belly drum + Sitrus berry + Aqua jet + Huge power

This works so well, it sweeps entire legendary teams. It really does.

Answer 14

Super fang + brine

Answer 15

ALSO!

Heliolisk is a beast with this moveset
Trait: Dry Skin
-Thunder(with Rain dance it never misses, plus STAB, great power + Pretty good SpA)
-Rain Dance (Heals you every turn)
-Surf (hits many Pokemon, gets boosted in the rain)
-Parabolic Charge (hits many Pokemon, STAB, heals you)

Boom! Awesome moveset, right?

Comments

This is not a moveset question, lol, but it is a good strat, you should post this in the Heliolisk moveset

Answer 16

Eject Pack Shell Smash Shuckle paired with a Copycat Electro Ball Jolteon.

Answer 17

Doubles pair
Zeraora@Choice Scarf

Ability:Volt Absorb
Nature:Adamant
EVs:252 Atk/252 Spe/4 Hp
•Plasma Fists
Rest of the set doesn’t matter, whatever you like really
Regieleki@Choice Band
Ability:Transistor
Nature:Adamant
EVs:252 Atk/252 Spe/4 HP
•Explosion
Rest doesn’t matter
Zeraora moves first and hits with Plasma Fists. Ions shower the battlefield. Regieleki follows up with Explosion, which becomes electric, gets STAB and Transistor, and boom. Both opponents are likely dead if they aren’t bulky with a resistance or ground.

Comments

How does Zeraora go first? It's 143 speed vs 200.

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because of choice scarf

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Ok, but thats surprising, I never knew choice scarf boosted speed that much.

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Choice scarf gives a 50% boost to the Pokémon’s speed.

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That's. A LOT

Answer 18

The painter dog and the dinosaur
Smeargle@Focus Sash

Ability:Own Tempo
Nature:Bold/Calm
EVs:252 HP/128 Def/128 SpD
•Trick Room
•Follow Me
•Aqua Jet
•Helping Hand

Rampardos@Weakness Policy

Ability:Sheer Force
Nature:Brave
EVs:252 HP/252 Atk/4 Def
0 Spe
•Rock Slide
•Earthquake
•Protect
•Doesn’t matter

First turn, let Smeargle set Trick Room and have Rampardos use protect. Then, use Aqua Jet to activate Rampardos’s weakness policy. Then sweep with Rock Slide that is STAB and boosted by sheer force. Smeargle can bring in other moves with Follow Me or boost Rampardos’s power with Helping Hand

Answer 19

Step 1.Use Trick, give the opponent a Choice Scarf
Step 2. use d I s a b l e
Step 3.Laugh hysterically
Actually Step 3.They’ll likely switch, so you can do anything. You coulduse Pursuit to hurt them, Pain Split to heal yourself, or an attacking move to hurt them, or something else, whatever you feel like doing

Answer 20

Have a Porygon, Porygon 2, or Porygon Z (optimally Porygon Z) with Thunderbolt in the first move slot, Normalium Z, Conversion, and Ice Beam
Use Z-Conversion to become electric and have all stats raised. As an electric type, you only have one weakness, ground. Have Ice Beam as coverage to cover ground, and you will have BoltBeam coverage.