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Gen 9 National Dex UU Booster Energy + Agility

Iron Moth @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Agility
- Fiery Dance
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball

Iron Moth doesn't get Quiver Dance, so here is a Booster Energy + Agility set. Modest Nature makes Iron Moth's highest stat Special Attack, allowing Booster Energy to give a boost to your Special Attack. Agility is used to raise Iron Moth's speed so it can outspeed faster Pokemon such as Choice Scarf Pokemon. Fiery Dance is used for Fire STAB that can potentially raise Iron Moth's Special Attack even higher. Sludge Wave is used for Poison STAB. Energy Ball provides coverage against Pokemon such as Dondozo, Garganacl, Swampert, Mega Gyarados, and Gastrodon. Tera Grass is used as the Tera Type since it gets rid of Iron Moth's Water, Rock, and Ground weaknesses, which Iron Moth appreciates because turning a 4x weakness to a resist is huge for it.

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can I just use any booster energy?
there's only one type of booster energy
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Gen 9 Monotype Choice Scarf (Poison/Fire)

Iron Moth @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fiery Dance
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball
- Dazzling Gleam

Choice Scarf allows Iron Moth to serve as a revenge killer in Gen 9 Monotype. Fiery Dance is used for Fire STAB that can raise your special attack. Sludge Wave is used for Poison STAB. Energy Ball provides coverage against Pokemon such as Gastrodon, Quagsire, Dondozo, Rotom-Wash, and Ting-Lu. Dazzling Gleam targets Dragon-types such as Dragapult, Garchomp, Dragonite, and Hydreigon.

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Finally! A Volcarona with decent secondary typing!

Gen 9 OU
Iron Moth @ Booster Energy
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Fiery Dance/Flamethrower
- Sludge Wave
- Tera Blast
- Energy Ball/Dazzling Gleam

This thing hits everything for neutral damage, no matter what moves you do. I would recommend this only with a reliable Deffoger/Rapid Spinner, as it is prone to getting chipped down. The role of this is as a late game cleaner, as if the opponent is weak, it outspeeds and OHKOs without a problem. Watch out for AV and Offensive Garchomp. You can also use this to force Gholdengo and Breloom out. Feel free to destroy me in the comments

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Iron moth can't learn sludge bomb.
Huzzah! A volcarona of quality!
Air Balloon Heatran after Home compatability:
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Gen 9 OU singles strong, bulky, yet speedy set
Item: Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Fire (chose it because I couldn’t be bothered)
EVs: 253 Spe, 251 SpA, 6 SpD
Nature: Timid (lowers Atk, Spe)
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball
- Bug Buzz

Flamethrower and Sludge Wave are STAB. Energy ball is to handle Rock, Ground, and Water types. Bug Buzz is to handle Psychic types.

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EVs should be maxed at 252 and be multiples of 4. I’d recommend Tera Flying for a Ground immunity.
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Role: Fast Special Sweeper

Iron Moth @ Booster Energy/Life Orb
Ability: Quark Drive
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball
- Fiery Dance
- Morning Sun

This is a really simple yet effective sweeping set.
Sludge Wave is for stab, Energy Ball is for coverage against ground, water, and rock types, Fiery Dance is for stab and spatk boosts, and morning sun is for healing. I like to run booster energy on it, but if you have electric terrain support I suggest life orb or choice specs if you want to run more coverage like Discharge instead of Morning Sun. The tera grass is to turn your weaknesses to water, ground, and rock into resistances while also giving stab to Energy Ball and give you an immunity to powder moves like spore and rage powder. (I use this set for doubles btw)

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Gen 9 AG Iron moth set

Ever since gen 9 Natdex was removed iron moth got a major promotion all the way up to OU after almost never being used and here is my set for it

Iron Moth @ Booster energy
EV's : 252 SpA, 4 Def, 252 Speed
Tera Type : Flying / Dragon
Ability : Quark Drive
Modest Nature
- Fiery Dance
- Agility
- Sludge Wave
- Psychic / Energy Ball

Booster Energy on Iron moth to activate Quark drive and due to my EV Spread and nature it's quark drive boosts it SpA to 519 (Approximately)

Fiery dance to raise his special attack even higher making it an even more serious threat to anything it doesn't get outsped by

agility if you can predict an opponent switching out giving yourself some speed control while having fiery dance boosts meaning there's less of a chance for anything to survive potentially allowing a sweep from him as most common Pokemon are weak to his movepool

Tera flying to remove the 4x weakness iron moth suffers from - Tera dragon also flips it weaknesses on their heads making it weak to fairy instead of 1/4x resist and weak to ice instead of 1/2x resist

Sludge wave to cover fairy removing his weakness to that and fiery dance already removing ice weakness and this just proves why iron moth got such a huge usage outside of natdex

me personally, would use psychic over energy ball for ditto iron moths and Clodsires which pose a huge threat should you have already used your tera on another mon which is great for him

So that's my iron moth set let me know what you think

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