Competitive Information for Hippopotas [Black/White]
Ground
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Hippopotas? 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.
Hippopotas is a marvelous Ground-typed Pokemon. Hippopotas is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Hippopotas can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Hippopotas is weak to Grass, Ice, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Eviolite / Life Orb
Ability: Sand Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Superpower / Revenge
- Double-Edge / Return
- Rock Slide
Physical Sweeper Hippopotas (Sand Force)
Hippopotas is an astounding Physical Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Hippopotas is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield but Eviolite changes that. 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%. White Herb will reset Hippopotas's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Hippopotas from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Hippopotas's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sand Force, Hippopotas's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it.
♦ Bulldoze is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Hippopotas's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Revenge is a physical 60-base power Fighting-type move (power doubles if Hippopotas is damaged by the target).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Hippopotas? 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: Sand Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Slide
- Superpower / Revenge
- Double-Edge / Return
Doubles Physical Sweeper Hippopotas (Sand Force)
Hippopotas is a fabulous Physical Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Hippopotas is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield but Eviolite changes that. 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%. White Herb will reset Hippopotas's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Hippopotas from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Hippopotas's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sand Force, Hippopotas's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it.
♦ Bulldoze is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Hippopotas's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Revenge is a physical 60-base power Fighting-type move (power doubles if Hippopotas is damaged by the target).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Hippopotas 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 Hippopotas 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 Hippopotas
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Yawn + Protect
- Moves: Stockpile + Spit up
- Moves: Stockpile + Swallow
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic, Yawn
Moves that boost Hippopotas's stats
- Curse
- Stockpile
Most notable and possible best moves for Hippopotas
- Earthquake
- Protect
- Rest
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Hippopotas in Black and White
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