Competitive Information for Illumise [Black/White]
Bug
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Illumise? 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.
Illumise is an interesting Bug-typed Pokemon. It's not-uncommon to find yourself dealing with Illumise when battling in the 5th generation meta. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Illumise is weak to Fire, Flying, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Silver Powder
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Buzz / Silver Wind
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball / Ominous Wind
- Giga Drain / Solar Beam
Special Sweeper Illumise (Oblivious)
Illumise is a wonderful Special Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Illumise from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Illumise's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Oblivious, Illumise cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it.
♦ Silver Wind is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Ominous Wind is a special 60-base power Ghost-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Giga Drain is a special 75-base power Grass-type move (Illumise recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Solar Beam is a special 120-base power Grass-type move (charges turn 1. hits turn 2. no charge in sunlight).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Illumise? 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 / Silver Powder
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Buzz / Silver Wind
- Air Cutter
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball / Ominous Wind
Doubles Special Sweeper Illumise (Oblivious)
Illumise is a notable Special Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Illumise from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Illumise's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Oblivious, Illumise cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it.
♦ Silver Wind is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Air Cutter is a special 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Ominous Wind is a special 60-base power Ghost-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Illumise 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 Illumise 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 Illumise
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- Moves: Wish + Baton pass
- Moves: Swagger + Flatter
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Flatter + Psych up
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Dynamic Punch
- Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Endure, Protect, Helping Hand
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Illumise's stats
- Charge Beam
- Growth
- Ominous Wind
- Silver Wind
Most notable and possible best moves for Illumise
- Baton Pass
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Illumise in Black and White
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