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Share your best competitive movesets for Deoxys-Attack on this thread! Movesets for regular Deoxys, Deoxys-Defense, and Deoxys-Speed belong separately and shouldn't be posted here.

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Deoxys-Attack Pokédex and learnset for reference.

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Mixed Attacker

Format: National Dex Ubers

Deoxys-Attack @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature

  • Psycho Boost
  • Shadow Ball
  • Extreme Speed
  • Drain Punch/Low Kick

Deoxys-A is the pinnacle of a glass cannon; fast, strong, but frail. It's important to use this beast correctly, otherwise it'll be eaten up by opposing foes. This mon is great during mid-late game. If you've removed key threats like Marshadow, Yveltal, etc, it has little to no trouble sweeping through everything else.

Psycho Boost: Your main psychic STAB move. Don't use it unless if you have to. If you do, switch out if you want to use another special attack, and wait for the right opportunity to switch back in, otherwise this thing will die.
Shadow Ball: Great coverage move. Tera allows it to deal massive damage.
Extreme Speed: Good move to use against priority mons (does 97-114% against a Yveltal with 4 defense (Usually Yveltals running no bulk will have the remaining 4 EVs put into defense)).
Drain Punch/Low Kick: Both are good coverage moves, however one puts longevity into the picture, while the other one exploits the high weight of other mons in Ubers to sweep.

Overall, I like using this set. Pretty fun to pull out mid match and sweep through enemy teams with ease.

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Could you specify that it's for Ubers at the top, and give the Tera type please
My bad...
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The format is Gen 9 Ubers as a lead rocks setter and fast attacker.

Rocky (Deoxys-Attack) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Pressure
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic / Psycho Boost
- Stealth Rock
- Dark Pulse
- Thunderbolt

Psychic is the main stab, but if you don’t mind the drops and lower accuracy, you can use Psycho Boost. The point of stealth rocks is to set up stealth rocks, Dark Pulse is coverage against Ghost types and other Psychic types, and Thunderbolt is just for coverage against stuff in general. Focus Sash is for putting up the rocks.

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Knock off would probably be better than dark pulse so you can remove items. Also dont lead Deoxys typically use taunt to stop enemy hazards?
“ The point of stealth rocks is to set up stealth rocks “ that is in fact a true statement
@R-The-Great this is also meant to attack until it dies.