Competitive Information for Cherrim [Black/White]
Grass
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Cherrim? 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.
Cherrim is a marvelous Grass-typed Pokemon. It's pretty common to see Cherrim show up as a Black/White opponent. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Cherrim is weak to Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, and Poison-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Miracle Seed
Ability: Flower Gift
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Hyper Beam / Round
- Morning Sun
- Defense Curl
Special Sweeper Cherrim (Flower Gift)
Cherrim is an outstanding Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Cherrim from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cherrim's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Flower Gift, if user is cherrim and sunny day is active it and allies' attack and sp. def are 1.5x.
♦ Energy Ball is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Cherrim cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Morning Sun is a status move (heals your Cherrim by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ Defense Curl is a status move (raises your Cherrim's defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Cherrim? 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 / Miracle Seed
Ability: Flower Gift
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Hyper Beam / Round
- Morning Sun
- Defense Curl
Doubles Special Sweeper Cherrim (Flower Gift)
Cherrim is a stupendous Special Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Cherrim from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cherrim's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Flower Gift, if user is cherrim and sunny day is active it and allies' attack and sp. def are 1.5x.
♦ Energy Ball is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Cherrim cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Morning Sun is a status move (heals your Cherrim by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ Defense Curl is a status move (raises your Cherrim's defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Cherrim 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 Cherrim 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 Cherrim
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- Moves: Safeguard + Petal dance
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Leech seed
- Moves: Toxic + Leech seed
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Helping Hand
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Cherrim's stats
- Defense Curl
- Growth
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Cherrim
- Giga Drain
- Growth
- Morning Sun
- Nature Power
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Cherrim in Black and White
- Relaxed Nature ( 252/2/172/0/80/0/ )
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- Optimize Cherrim's EV spread for Pokemon Black and White
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