What is a good moveset for Eternatus?

Question

If you have a good competitive moveset for Eternatus, post an answer below and upvote the best ones.

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

Eternatus Pokédex and learnset for reference.

Answer 1

Eternatus @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Agility
- Sludge Wave
- Dynamax Cannon
- Flamethrower

After an Agility, Eternatus will outspeed everything in Ubers, plus basically every choice scarfer. Even without Weakness Policy, Eternatus is really strong.

Comments

Why 4 attack? You only have status and special moves.

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Eternatus Attack sucks compared to it's specail attack.

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i didn't even put a physical attack on this moveset?

Answer 2

Eternatus @ Black Sludge
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Cosmic Power
- Toxic
- Recover
- Mystical Fire

Pressure stall. Cosmic Power raises defenses, Toxic wears down anything other than Poison and Steel types, Recover is a recovery move, and Mystical Fire takes out Steel types.

Answer 3

Eternatus @ Dragon Fang
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 Spe / 252 SpD
Modest Nature

• Eternabeam
• Sludge Bomb
• Flamethrower
• Recover

With Dragon Fang, 252 EV on SpA and 31 IV on all stats, Eternatus will OHKO a lot of Pokemon with Eternabeam. Sludge Bomb is a nice STAB move, and has a good chance to poison. Flamethrower for coverage and Recover to stay in battle. Eternatus is pretty fast and it has a nice HP, that's why I prefer to give 252 EVs on SpD. Hyper Train it with a Gold Bottle Cap.

Comments

I think recover is better because Eternatus HP is very good.

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I don't know how useful a Dragon Fang would be here. Wouldn't it be better to give it Leftovers just for that much extra recovery?

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[MEGA]StellarLucario My idea is max out the damage of Eternabeam to one hit K.O almost every Pokémon and deal a lot of damage with sludge bomb (stab) and flamethrower (coverage). Dragon Fang is very important to boost Eternabeam. Leftovers can be replaced by Recover in this situation.

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You generally don't want a special attacker with a perfect Attack IV stat.

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Nice, but if you are using Eternatus as a highly offensive attacker here, then I would use more EV on the speed.

Answer 4

Eternatus @ Toxic Plate
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Sludge Wave
- Dragon Tail
- Dynamax Cannon
- Flamethrower

Nothing that special. Sludge Wave is pretty powerful when boosted by Toxic Plate, Dragon Tail is to stop things from setting up, Dynamax Cannon is good STAB that takes care of dynamax Pokemon, and Flamethrower can roast Ferrothorn.

Answer 5

Choice Specs Wallbreaker

Eternatus @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Sludge Wave
- Dynamax Cannon
- Mystical Fire / Flamethrower
- Shadow Ball

A pretty basic set if you ask me. Pressure is Eternatus' only ability, so might as well put it in there. Sludge Wave is Eternatus' primary STAB move, Dynamax Cannon being its secondary. Mystical Fire has a 100% chance to lower the opponent's special attack, so it may be useful to cripple special attackers. Flamethrower can be used instead for the tiny burn chance and higher BP. Shadow Ball is used as the only other useful special move out there aside from Flash Cannon, and it also works as coverage against Psychic-type Pokémon.

Comments

You're trying to do too many things. Go for Flamethrower instead. This is a wallbreaker, correct? So maximum power should be its goal. You don't need a weaker fire move because you're not intending to do chip damage, you're intending to swing bonecrushing hits at them.

Answer 6

Toxic Spikes setter + Phaser

Eternatus @ Black Sludge
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA
Mild Nature
- Toxic Spikes
- Dragon Tail
- Dynamax Cannon
- Sludge Wave

Answer 7

Awesome Pokémon. That’s all I can say.

Eternatus @ Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
EVs: 252 Spe / 252 SpA / 4 HP
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk) / Modest (+SpAtk, -Atk)
Ability: Pressure

Dynamax Cannon- Dragon STAB, already strong enough without the Dynamax boost.
Sludge Bomb / Sludge Wave- Poison STAB, you choose either better chance of poisoning target or higher base power.
Flamethrower- Coverage against Ice types.
Shadow Ball- Nice knowing you, Psychic types.

Pretty basic moveset, there aren't a ton of great moves for Eternatus to learn, but with the ones they can pull off, they’re beasts.

Answer 8

Eternatus @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Dynamax Cannon
- Sludge Wave
- Flamethrower
- Eternabeam

So, when I first saw Eternatus, I was hyped for a new anti-Fairy Dragon, but other than that, I didn't see anything that special... until I saw Eternabeam. 160 base power STAB, coming off of a base 145 base Special Attack was the thing that really caught my eye. This set is meant is meant to by a late game wallbreaker, so have fun with it!

Comments

Eternabeam is rechargw. Change it up for dynamax cannon and you're good to go.

Answer 9

DEFENSIVE
Eternatus @ Black Sludge
ABILITY: Pressure
NATURE: Timid (+Spd -Atk)
EVs: 252 Def / 252 SpD / 4 HP

-Dynamax Cannon
-Flamethrower
-Recover
-Toxic

Answer 10

SWEEPER
Eternatus @ Choice Scarf
ABILITY: Pressure
NATURE: Timid (+Spd -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spd / 4 HP

-Dynamax Cannon
-Sludge Bomb
-Flamethrower
-Toxic Spikes

Answer 11

Eternatus @ Black Sludge
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Spd
Nature: Modest
- Toxic
- Dynamax Cannon
- Eternabeam
- Cosmic Power

Mainly focusing on Special Attack, Toxic for status inflicting (except for Pokemon who are Poison or Steel types, or have Synchronize ability). Cosmic Power for reinforcement for Defense, and I just have a habit of putting the signature move of a Pokemon if they have one.

Comments

you have two stab moves of the same type, without them serving different purposes. Eternabeam sucks, as it has recharge. Cosmic power doesn't make sense because you can be chipped down due to a lack of recover. Also, that isn't how synchronize works.

Answer 12

Eternatus @ Power Herb
Ability: Pressure
Nature: Modest
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 HP
• Meteor Beam: Raises Special Attack and hits very hard because it hits after the Special Attack boost. One turn because of Power Herb
• Dynamax Cannon: Strong STAB, the power boost against Dynamaxed Pokémon is helpful
• Sludge Wave: Strong STAB
• Flamethrower: Good power and coverage

Start with Meteor Beam to raise Special Attack and potentially knock out the opposing Pokémon with its great power, then you can sweep.

Answer 13

Eternatus @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 16 Def / 224 SpA / 16 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Recover
- Cosmic Power
- Mystical Fire
- Dynamax Cannon

Basically, its a VERY VERY BULKY sweeper. It does not need to out-speed anything, it just needs a few Cosmic Powers and then spam Recover. The Pressure Ability burns an opponent's PP, which is a nice addition. Finally, Dynamax Cannon is its STAB and main attacking move, and Mystical Fire for dealing with tricky Steel types. Mystical Fire is also chosen over Flamethrower due to its SpA lowering. This set is so bulky that it can also work in Doubles, allowing your other Pokemon to set-up or do whatever you want. Only thing you might want to watch out for would be other damage set up Pokemon with Calm Mind/Quiver Dance, and Marshadow's Spectral Thief, stealing your defensive boosts.

Answer 14

Eternatus
Role: Staller and heavy Attacker
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Cosmic Power
- Eternabeam
- Recover
- Toxic
Cosmic Power for increasing it's defense, Toxic to badly poison the oppoment, Eternabeam for STAB and lots of damage dealt (almost a guaranteed 1 hit KO on anything except fairy types) and Recover because we would be wasting a lot of time using Cosmic Power, Toxic, recharging period of Eternabeam, so we definitely need to heal up.

Okay, this answer is definitely not the best but I've hoped this answer was better.