Competitive Information for Beedrill [Black/White]
Bug / Poison
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Beedrill? 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.
Beedrill is popular Bug and Poison-typed Pokemon. Beedrill is a pretty usual Pokemon to see in Generation 5. Beedrill is weak to Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Scope Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Brick Break / Double-Edge
- Poison Jab
- X-Scissor / U-turn
- Drill Run
Physical Sweeper Beedrill (Sniper)
Beedrill is an interesting Physical Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Beedrill critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Beedrill's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Beedrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Beedrill's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sniper, if Beedrill strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5. Brick Break was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Poison Jab is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a considerable amount of damage.
♦ U-turn is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Bug-type move (Beedrill switches out after damaging the target).
♦ Drill Run is a physical 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Beedrill? 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: Scope Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Brick Break / Double-Edge
- Poison Jab
- X-Scissor / U-turn
- Drill Run
Doubles Physical Sweeper Beedrill (Sniper)
Beedrill is an awesome Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Beedrill critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Beedrill's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Beedrill from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Beedrill's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sniper, if Beedrill strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5. Brick Break was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Poison Jab is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a good amount of damage.
♦ U-turn is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Bug-type move (Beedrill switches out after damaging the target).
♦ Drill Run is a physical 80-base power Ground-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Beedrill 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 Beedrill 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 Beedrill
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Sniper + Item: Scope lens
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Ability: Sniper + High Crit Move: Air Cutter
- Ability: Sniper + High Crit Move: Drill Run
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Defog, Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Beedrill's stats
- Agility
- Harden
- Iron Defense
- Ominous Wind
- Rage
- Silver Wind
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Beedrill
- Baton Pass
- Knock Off
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Beedrill in Black and White
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