Competitive Information for Banette [Black/White]
Ghost
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Banette? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Black/White Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Black/White generation metagame.
Banette is a phenomenal Ghost-typed Pokemon. Banette is a normal Pokemon to see in Generation 5. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Banette's only type-related weaknesses are Dark and Ghost.
Item: Life Orb / Silk Scarf
Ability: Cursed Body
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Shadow Claw / Shadow Sneak
- Sucker Punch / Payback
- Protect
Physical Sweeper Banette (Cursed Body)
Banette is a sensational Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Banette from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Banette's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Cursed Body, if Banette is hit by an attack there is a 30% chance that move gets disabled.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Shadow Sneak is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Ghost-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Sucker Punch is a physical priority-increased 80-base power Dark-type move (usually goes first. fails if target is not attacking).
♦ Payback is a physical 50-base power Dark-type move (power doubles if your Banette moves after the target).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Banette this turn).
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Item: Dark Gem
Ability: Cursed Body
Nature: Lonely (+Atk, -Def)
EVs: 220 Hp / 110 Atk / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Foul Play
- Swagger
- Destiny Bond
- Screech
Banette Physical Tank (Swaggapuppet)
Banette is a spectacular Physical Tank. It is designed to take a nice amount of physical hits while dealing some decent damage. With Cursed Body, if Banette is hit by an attack there is a 30% chance that move gets disabled.
♦ Swagger is a status move (raises the target's attack by 2 stages and confuses it).
♦ Destiny Bond is a status move (if an opponent knocks out your Banette, it also faints).
♦ Screech is a status move (lowers the target's defense by 2 stages).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Banette? These builds have been optimized for Black/White Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Black/White generation metagame.
Item: Life Orb / Silk Scarf
Ability: Cursed Body
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Shadow Claw / Shadow Sneak
- Sucker Punch / Payback
- Protect
Doubles Physical Sweeper Banette (Cursed Body)
Banette is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Banette from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Banette's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Cursed Body, if Banette is hit by an attack there is a 30% chance that move gets disabled.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Shadow Sneak is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Ghost-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Sucker Punch is a physical priority-increased 80-base power Dark-type move (usually goes first. fails if target is not attacking).
♦ Payback is a physical 50-base power Dark-type move (power doubles if your Banette moves after the target).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Banette this turn).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Banette learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Banette can perform in Black/White. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive BW Move and Ability Combos for Banette
- Moves: Mimic + Imprison
- Moves: Swagger + Foul play
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Swagger + Screech
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Pain split + Toxic
- Moves: Pain split + Will-o-wisp
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Magic Coat, Snatch, Helping Hand, Sucker Punch, Shadow Sneak
- Moves that inflict status (and combo with the move Hex): Thunder Wave, Toxic, Will-O-Wisp
Moves that boost Banette's stats
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Cotton Guard
- Curse
- Ominous Wind
Most notable and possible best moves for Banette
- Destiny Bond
- Knock Off
- Protect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Banette in Black and White
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