Competitive Information for Gloom [Black/White]
Grass / Poison
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Gloom? 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.
Gloom is a fabulous Grass and Poison-typed Pokemon. Gloom is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Gloom is weak to Fire, Flying, Ice, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Miracle Seed
Ability: Chlorophyll
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 132 Hp / 252 SpA / 124 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Round / Snore
- Moonlight
Special Sweeper Gloom (Chlorophyll)
Gloom is a stupendous Special Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Gloom from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Gloom'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 Gloom's speed is doubled.
♦ 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).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Snore is a special 40-base power Normal-type move (Gloom must be asleep. 30% chance to flinch target).
♦ Moonlight is a status move (heals your Gloom by a weather-dependent amount).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Gloom? 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: Chlorophyll
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 132 Hp / 252 SpA / 124 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Sludge Bomb / Acid
- Round / Snore
- Moonlight
Doubles Special Sweeper Gloom (Chlorophyll)
Gloom is popular Special Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Gloom from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Gloom'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 Gloom's speed is doubled.
♦ 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).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Acid is a special STAB-boosted 40-base power Poison-type move (10% chance to lower the foes special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Snore is a special 40-base power Normal-type move (Gloom must be asleep. 30% chance to flinch target).
♦ Moonlight is a status move (heals your Gloom by a weather-dependent amount).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Gloom 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 Gloom 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 Gloom
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Endure + Flail
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Substitute + Leech seed
- Moves: Ingrain + Leech seed
- Moves: Toxic + Leech seed
- 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
- Moves that inflict status: Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Toxic
Moves that boost Gloom's stats
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Gloom
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Gloom in Black and White
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