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

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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 :-)

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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.
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2 votes

Thunder Wave + Hex + Smelling Salt
OR
Hypnosis/Dark Void/ Sleep Powder + Hex + Wake-Up Slap

Annoys your foes!

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2 votes

Best Way to beat Josh?
In a Rain team the lead is usually Politoed so, lead with a Cofagrigus and get them to attack you thus making their ability Mummy.
Switch to an Instant weather Pokemon.

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I am making a team with Cofagrigus as it's lead! Although I think that Mummy is only passed when the user touches the Pokemon with Mummy; correct me if I'm wrong.
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I run specialtoed 90% of the time :D
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2 votes

Substitute and Disable.
Works great for fast Pokemon like Gengar.

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2 votes

Cosmic Power + Bide
Cosmic Power makes your Pokemon bulkier, and be able to take more damage and return it with Bide with 2X power.

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wouldnt increasing bulk cause you to take less damage per attack which would cause you to return less damage ? the only way to make bide stronger would be to increase the hp of a pokemon which can be done by using wish
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I think the idea with this one is to be able to survive more hits. If you have lower defense the opponent might KO you before you get to retaliate.
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2 votes

Here is a deadly combination for defending! Set a Zoroark to the first slot of your party and set a Giratina (Origin-Form) to the sixth slot of your party! In a battle against a friend, Zoroark will transform into Giratina using it's ability Illusion! Zoroark's only weakness is the Fighting-Type, but the opponent will think that Zoroark is the real Giratina!!! So if the opponent tries to use a Ghost or Dark-Type move on what they think is Giratina, it won't be very effective! Also, they know that Fighting-Type moves don't effect what they think is Giratina, so they won't use Fighting-Type moves on Zoroark! It's also a bit funny if you think about it because your tricking your friend!!!

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Dark type pokemon have also weakness to Bug ;-)
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yea but bug is not very effective on ghost so no one would use it
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You could also use gengar with 4x resistance to bug and fighting immunity + people wont use earthquake because of levitate EDIT: if they use psychic attacks because they think its super effective but i doesn't have an effect on Zoroark
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2 votes

In Triple/Double battles have pokemon with the ability Storm Drain.The best choose is
Mesprit

Then use again and again Surf .While you are hitting the foe, your Gastrodon is getting more Sp.Att. and the power of Surf is awesome.Also when Gastrodon hits,gets STAB.Works best in Triple Battles .

That's why I love Surf.

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I also love SURF, and GASTRIDONS!
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2 votes

After you + any attack that is stronger if you were hit first

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2 votes

Here is a nice troll.
You need Zoroark, Mismagius, and Lucario.
1st turn: Lead with Zoroark(Sashed), and Mismagius last. Use Nasty Plot.
2nd turn: They see ghost, so they switch to dark. Use Focus Blast!
3rd turn: Use it again, they attack and see it is Zoroark, so they switch to fighting.
4th turn: Switch to Mismagius. They Switch.
5th turn: Switch to Lucario with Justified. Use Hi Jump Kick.

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2 votes

Double Battle.

Zapdos and Gyarados

Have Zapdos have the Ability Lightning-rod and Gyarados Intimidate is better IMO for this but Moxie is also great.

Now Gyarados has only 1 weakness and anytime someone tries to use an Electric move on Gyarados, Zapdos gets a boost. Also if you use Intimidate your Pokemon get great bulk with both of them already having good base S.Defense they get an effective boost to their Defense. Because of this boost it actually safe to use D-dance on Gyarados to make him fast and have an even Higher Attack.

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Gyarados is weak to rock.
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Yes, I said "has only one weakness" that weakness is rock. His electric weakness is nullified by Zapdos' Lightning-rod.
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I need better reading skills.....
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first: You can't legitly get a zapdos with lightning rod.

second: If you switch into zapdos, you do get the boost except if you switch back to gyrados, you lose it.


overall, I just recomend giving the gyrados a battery.
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First: PO allows you to.
Second: It says DOUBLE BATTLE.
Third: You still take damage from Electric moves even with Cell Battery.
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2 votes

When up against a Ditto, use the move Imprison.
Foe Ditto keeps using Struggle.
You can also use Substitute, to not take damage from Struggle/

This will always work, for Ditto's only move is Transform.
It's Hidden Ability is Impostor , which is almost same as Transform.

Happy Foe-Ditto-Annoying! :)

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Always work, unless Ditto uses imprison on you first.
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And since that Ditto user would most likely have enough of a brain to see imprison and have equal speed, you've got a 50% chance of it counter-trolling you.
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2 votes

In front of Ditto, use aPokemon with the ability Pressure.
This way, when Ditto uses Transform, and gets 5/n PP of our moves, we can quickly end the foe Ditto's PP supply.

This makes Ditto start using Struggle faster, and the recoil finishes it off, if you do not.

Good Pokemon for this : Spiritomb, which can resist most of its own attacks.

Beware of Leppa Berries.

Happy Ditto Annoying. :)

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This is not a very good strategy as most Ditto run imposter.
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2 votes

Drought ability with Overheat, Hypnosis, Nasty Plot. Only possible on Ninetales.

Overheat in the sunny weather is pretty deadly though the special attack loss is a bummer. Thats when you put them to sleep and use nasty plot to get the loss back. Now you are ready to attack full force overheat again. Energy ball is just there to cover ground and water weakness. Ill put this on the ninetales moveset question too.

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Ninetales has the ability Drought so why don't you put Solarbeam instead of Energy Ball ?
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because its not so reliable when politoad or tyranitar switch in making it a 3 turn attack
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excatly
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This goes in the moveset question for Ninetales.
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thats why i put one there to my main combo is nasty plot and overheat
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2 votes

Hex + Nasty Plot + Will-o-Wisp
Good Candidate: Ninetales

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Mismagius for some low tier bossin.
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Not Bad :D
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2 votes

Serperior with the trait Contrary(Unreleased)+Leaf Storm=Deadly Killer on first turn

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2 votes

Double Battle Strategy:
Use This With A Poke'mon That Knows Spite.
Use This With A Poke'mon That Knows Trump
Card. Ok So First Use Trump Card And After
Use Spite, Spite Will Lower The PP To Make
It Stronger And It Should Reach A Power
In The Range Of: 8O Which Is A Mostly
Double Battle Strategy AND, My
Best Candidates Are:

For Spite:

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For Trump Card:

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Hope I Helped! :)
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This one works real well to cripple entire teams. Involves Stealth Rock, Aggron / Tyranitar, Roar, and Toxic / Thunder Wave.

Turn 1: Lead with Tyranitar / Aggron, and use Stealth Rock. Make sure he has BULK.

Turn 2: Use Status inflicter.

Turn 3: Use Roar.

Turn 4: Return to step 2.

Note: Skarmory can also do this with Whirlwind.
Note: Use Aggron for the low tier, and Tyranitar is OU, unfortunately.

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An i have a combination to lock your opponent into a status move, which will ruin those boosters.

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First send in a kadabra (or someone to set up stage one)and wait for someone to use a boosting move like Calm Mind. Then use Encore to ensure they keep using Calm Mind for a while. If they dont switch you can move on to the next step.

Switch into a Choice item pokemon(Band,Specs,Scarf, though the Scarf works best.) like this guy and have it use trick while the person is locked into Calm Mind. They are now stuck to not using that boosting move for the rest of the match.

P.S. i used these guys as an example because they are what im using one one of my NU teams.

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Until they switch out. Maybe specs or band, since you giving them scarf will just make them faster and can pose a problem for you. Imagine giving Scizor specs?? It's murderous.
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yea it would
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I would pair with mean look...
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2 votes

Use Soak on the Opponent's Poke'mon and use Grass/Electric Type Move,
x2 Damage Instantly!

Hope I Helped Ya!

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Yeah, but you could do more damage by just using a neutral move twice, good idea though.
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Thanks :D
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2 votes

Two Pokemon sweep.


Genesect @ Choice Scarf

Trait: Download

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Speed

Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

  • U-Turn
  • Thunderbolt
  • Ice Beam
  • Flamethrower


Genesect @ Life Orb

Trait: Download

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Speed

Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)

  • U-Turn
  • Thunderbolt
  • Flamethrower
  • Ice Beam

These sets are dominant, an amazing combo.

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*Send Out Heatran*
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Ouch...
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um... species clause?
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Doesn't matter, this is a combo question. That is optional anyways.
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ok then :D
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2 votes

Manaphy with atleast rest as a move then some other good moves and then because of its ability Hydration you can use rest the hydration will wake you up!!

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Other moves should be tail glow and bolt beam coverage
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