What is a good moveset for Hisuian Zoroark?

Question

This thread is for Hisuian Zoroark. For Unovan Zoroark, please go here.

If you have a good competitive moveset for Hisuian Zoroark, post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for any of its pre-evolutions can also be shared on this thread.

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.

Hisuian Zoroark Pokedex & learnset for reference.

Answer 1

Zoroark-Hisui @ Life Orb / Air Balloon (!!)
Ability: Illusion
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Hyper Voice
- Focus Blast

Pretty self-explanatory. Nasty Plot for setup, dual STAB in Shadow Ball and Hyper Voice, and Focus Blast for coverage. Tera Fighting lets you resist sucker punch and powers up Focus Blast. Life Orb is your typical choice, boosting its power by 1.3x, and the health drop doesn't really matter since you're so frail anyways.
Since you're trying to trick your opponent most of the time, Pokemon weak to fighting or ghost are especially good partners, such as Kingambit or Gholdengo. This is where Air Balloon comes in: since it's a common item on Gholdengo, you bait the opponent into using a ghost move, thus giving you a free turn of setup. Very gimmicky, not worth it in most games, but hilarious when it works.

Answer 2

yay I can post my zorua answer now

pets aggresively (Zorua-Hisui) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Illusion
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 36 Atk / 236 SpA / 40 SpD / 196 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Knock Off
- Flamethrower
- Shadow Ball

Now, I don't know a ton about little cup, so there won't be anything else but the moveset. Shadow Ball for STAB, and the other moves are for coverage. Knock Off is for breaking past Eviolites and for stopping other Scarfers in their tracks. Also, with max speed, it is able to outspeed Dreepy, the fastest thing in the metagame. This could also work for a Zoroark set if you're not into LC.

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Comments

Dark Pulse is very unnecessary. Straight up inferior to Shadow Ball unless you really need that flinch.

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Why Dark Pulse and Shadow Ball, as DPulse doesn't give that much coverage with Ghost STAB? Wouldn't running Flamethrower and Sludge Bomb be better? Dreepy isn't good in LC, it doesn't have good coverage and a shallow movepool. The EVs in LC are different from normal EVs, but this EV spread maxes what you want for LC: 36 Atk / 236 SpA / 40 SpD / 196 Spe

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thanks

Answer 3

Fun Sweeper Set for Hisuian Zoroark:

Zoroark-Hisui @ Focus Sash
Ability: Illusion
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Voice
- Shadow Ball
- Grass Knot
- Nasty Plot

Send out or switch in when disguised as a Pokemon weak to fighting or ghost. Then, use nasty plot on the first turn. If you are still at full hp, you could use it once more even. After that, use your other moves as you wish to sweep the opponent. Hisuian Zoroark is not the fastest Pokemon ever, but it outspeeds most Pokemon. It's too bad that it doesn't keep its Legends Arceus stats in Scarlet and Violet.

Comments

Actually, it does keep its Legends Arceus stats. When S/V first came out, it was coded with regular Zoroark's stats, but they changed it upon release.

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Oh really? Ok I didn’t know that

Answer 4

National Dex Monotype Choice Scarf/Specs (Ghost/Normal)

Zoroark-Hisui @ Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
Ability: Illusion
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
- Trick
- U-turn / Dark Pulse / Flamethrower / Grass Knot

A Choiced set Hisuian Zoroark can use in NatDex Monotype. This Pokemon can be scary if you can manage to disguise Hisuian Zoroark without giving it away. Shadow Ball is used for the Ghost STAB since Bitter Malice easily gives Hisuian Zoroark away. Focus Blast provides coverage against Dark-types such as Tyranitar, Kingambit, Roaring Moon, and Ting-Lu. Trick lets Hisuian Zoroark cripple defensive Pokemon by giving them your Choice Scarf/Specs to a Pokemon who doesn't enjoy being locked into one move. The last slot depends on what move you want to use, and 2 moves are dependent on wheter if you use Choice Scarf or Choice Specs. If you use Choice Scarf, U-turn is an option to let Hisuian Zoroark switch out while chipping opposing Pokemon. Dark Pulse might seem useless considering Shadow Ball is STAB, but Dark Pulse is useful for opposing Hisuian Zoroark. Flamethrower is an option to deal super effective damage to Steel-types such as Ferrothor, Iron Treads, Excadrill, Scizor/Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Celesteela. Grass Knot is an option if you use Choice Specs to target Pokemon such as Swampert/Mega Swampert, Mamowsine, Ting-Lu, and Great Tusk.