What can I use instead of Curse?

Question

I just caught a Gigantamax Snorlax and I want to use it competitively. My issue is, however, my Snorlax is male and I can't get curse on it without not having it being able to Gigantamax, meaning that I can't use a curselax strategy. What can I use as a substitute for it?

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What format/rules are you playing with?

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I'm planning on using a doubles team. I'm gonna put the team in Showdown first using VGC 2020 to test it. So basically VGC 2020 rules.

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VGC20 has existed for less than a month, so I think very few people know what moves are good in that format.

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Alright then, really I'm just going to be using it in Battle Stadium Doubles mostly, so maybe that helps a bit?

Answer 1

I know this doesn't answer what move is 'better' than Curse because that is entirely subjective.

However, there is no reason your G-Max Snorlax isn't able to learn Curse.
If you delete a move-slot from your G-Max Snorlax & breed a regular Snorlax with Curse aswell.

You can proceed to put them in the daycare together to transfer the egg-move curse. Genders don't matter, all that matters is that one snorlax has a free move-slot and the other has an eggmove to transfer.

All you need to do is ride up and down a few times and go & retrieve your G-Max Snorlax with Curse!

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Eggs can't inherit the Gmax factor. Also I'm pretty sure eggs can still inherit moves if both parents have no free slots.

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Yeah. If you breed an egg where it's parent can G-max, the offspring won't be able to G-max. Besides, if anything my Snorlax (named IHOP) would have to be female. And my Snorlax would be the Pokemon passing down curse since only the male has the ability to do that.

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I don't think either of you understand. Egg moves can be passed down by Males & Females since Generation 7.
In Sword & Shield you can now transfer Egg moves without breeding.

(the reason this has been added is SPECIFICALLY so you can give G-Max Pokemon Egg Moves)

Put your G-max Snorlax with one free move slot & another Snorlax that knows Curse in the daycare.
Ride around for a bit and the G-Max snorlax will now know curse. No breeding or eggs needed.
This is literally in the trailer for Pokémon Sword/Shield on the Pokémon YouTube Channel.

Source: https://youtu.be/ZMbdafiaYdE

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I knew about this, but I didn't think that the females could pass the move, too!

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I didn't see any mention of day cares in that video. Can you tell me a specific time in the video, in case I missed it while trying to watch the entire video?

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It actually worked! Thanks!!

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Apologies the source has been edited, check the new link. Here is the correct video.

https://youtu.be/ZMbdafiaYdE

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Okay thanks.