Competitive Information for Cherubi [Black/White]
Grass
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Cherubi? 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.
Cherubi is an astounding Grass-typed Pokemon. Cherubi is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Cherubi can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Cherubi is weak to Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, and Poison-typed attacks.
Item: Eviolite / Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 80 Hp / 12 Def / 252 SpA / 164 Spe
Moveset:
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Round / Weather Ball
- Morning Sun
- Defense Curl
Special Sweeper Cherubi (Chlorophyll)
Cherubi is a spectacular Special Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Cherubi is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield without an Eviolite. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. Focus Sash helps protect Cherubi from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cherubi's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Chlorophyll, if sunny day is active Cherubi's speed is doubled.
♦ Giga Drain is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Cherubi recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
♦ Morning Sun is a status move (heals your Cherubi by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ Defense Curl is a status move (raises your Cherubi's defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Cherubi? 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: Eviolite / Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 80 Hp / 12 Def / 252 SpA / 164 Spe
Moveset:
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Round / Weather Ball
- Morning Sun
- Defense Curl
Doubles Special Sweeper Cherubi (Chlorophyll)
Cherubi is popular Special Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Cherubi is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield until Eviolite was attached to it. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. Focus Sash helps protect Cherubi from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cherubi's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Chlorophyll, if sunny day is active Cherubi's speed is doubled.
♦ Giga Drain is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Cherubi recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
♦ Morning Sun is a status move (heals your Cherubi by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ Defense Curl is a status move (raises your Cherubi's defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Cherubi 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 Cherubi 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 Cherubi
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- 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 Cherubi's stats
- Defense Curl
- Growth
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Cherubi
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Cherubi in Black and White
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