What is a good moveset for Seviper?

Question

If you have a good competitive moveset for Seviper, 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.

Seviper Pokédex and learnset for reference.

Answer 1

Role: Special Sweeper

Seviper (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Giga Drain
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Wave
- Hidden Power [Dark]

Flamethrower, and HP Dark for Coverage.
Giga Drain for Coverage and Healing.
Sludge Wave for Hard hitting STAB.

Comments

Replace HP Dark with Dark Pulse.

Answer 2

Seviper @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 200 HP / 56 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Coil
- Aqua Tail
- Sucker Punch
- Rest

Coil boosts his attacking power ( All moves support ) his defense, ( Enough EVs to make his boosts worth while ) and Accuracy ( Aqua Tail is now great Ground coverage. )
Aqua Tail gets an accuracy boost from Coil, making it great coverage.
Sucker Punch brings in boosting and priority, which is always nice to have.
Rest is WAY shortened due to Shed Skin, so I have healing! :D

Comments

replace leftovers for black sludge
seviper is a poison type

Answer 3

Role: Mixed Sweeper

Seviper @ Black Sludge / Poison Barb
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Brave Nature
- Poison Jab
- Earthquake
- Flamethrower
- Iron Tail

• Poison Jab(STAB, Good pwer, High Accurasy, good chanse to poison the foe)
• Earthquake(High Power, Good Accurasy, coverage, if used near a Flying Pokemon, a Levitate Pokemon or an Air Balloon one, it strikes only the foes)
• Flamethrower(Good Power, High Accurasy, Unexpectable move for Seviper)
• Iron Tail(Unexpectable, High Power, Steel moves and types are rare these days)

Answer 4

Seviper @ Black Sludge
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk 252 Spe
Jolly Nature

• Aqua Tail
• Poison Jab
• X-Scissor
• Earthquake/Coil

Aqua Tail covers Ground, and is nice at 90 BP. Poison Jab is obligatory STAB, X-Scissor covers Psychic, Dark, and Grass (better than crunch imo) and Earthquake is for Steel types. Or use Coil for more power and defense.

Answer 5

Seviper @ Life Orb
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Poison Jab
- Earthquake
- Sucker Punch
- Aqua Tail

Poison Jab is STAB with decent power.
Earthquake rounds out the coverage nicely by hitting Rock-, Poison- and Ground-types that resists Poison Jab.
Sucker Punch hits Ghosts like Misdreavus who would wall this set, without Sucker Punch.
It also gives Seviper an excellent priority move to use.
Aqua Tail hits Ground types like Golem and Camerupt for massive damage.
If there's a certain threat Seviper should outpseed, Jolly is an alternative.

Answer 6

Its kind of gimmickly but its a set you can use for doubles triples in something with trick room or straighly in trick room team, your choise.

Seviper @ Black Sludge / Leftovers (leftovers depend of your team)
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature
- Final Gambit
- Protect
- Poison Jab
- Earthquake / Knock Off / Aqua Tail

The idea its get a final shot in something big, you can protect for trick room to make its easily.
If you can kill someting with STAB go agead and smash it. The final slot its coverage, knock off for psiquics, aqua tail in ground and EQ its to hit super effective hits in common counters like steel or poison.
You can try this set in the speacial side with moves like sludge bomb and giga drain, dark pulse or flamethrower for coverage, all in a modest way.

Answer 7

Seviper @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Rest
- Haze
- Toxic
- Crunch

Simple. Haze for sweepers, shed skin rest makes it an amazing tank, toxic, no reason to say, and crunch for effecting ever type.

Answer 8

Role: bulky physical sweeper

Seviper @ Life Orb
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Poison Jab
- Coil
- Crunch
- Glare

• poison jab: good damage STAB also added chance of poison
• coil: good stat boost
• crunch: counters psychic weakness
• glare: 100% chance of paralysis

Answer 9

Seviper @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Atk / 128 SpA
Quiet Nature
- Coil
- Rest
- Belch
- Aqua Tail

Coil raises accuracy (for belch and aqua tail), defense (for tanking hits), and attack (for aqua tail). When the sitrus berry activates, you can use Belch, which is a very, very strong STAB move. Rest heals you, and shed skin occasionally eliminates status conditions, which could wake you up early. Aqua tail is strong and covers ground.

Answer 10

Gen 7 PU / ZU

Seviper @ Black Sludge
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Coil
- Glare
- Dragon Tail
- Poison Jab

Coil boosts your attack, defense and accuracy. Glare paralyzes opposing Pokemon. Dragon Tail is to force opposing Pokemon out and can make Pokemon who gained stat boosts lose their stat boosts, and works well when hazards are on the opposing Pokemon's side. Poison Jab is STAB and deals with fairy types since they can't be phazed out by Dragon Tail.

Answer 11

Seviper (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Poison Jab
- Toxic
- Earthquake
- Rest

Seviper, while hindered by mediocre stats, can actually prove moderately useful. In lower tiers.

Poison Jab is STAB that might poison. However, the much preferred poison would be Toxic, which will not miss due to Seviper being Poison type. Earthquake hits the steel types that are immune to poison. Rest heals you all the way, and if you're fortunate, Shed Skin will instantly wake you up! Tera Grass can nullify Seviper's Ground weakness, and possibly lure in a poor Fire type who's about to get Earthquaked.

Leftovers offer minor healing when you aren't asleep.

Comments

Use Leftovers instead of Black Sludge. If you tera into a Grass Type and still have Black Sludge, it will hurt you instead of healing you (I found this out the hard way xd). Basically, there's no reason to use Black Sludge in formats that allow Tera.

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Didn't realize that. lol