Competitive Information for Kricketune [Black/White]
Bug
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Kricketune? 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.
Kricketune is an astounding Bug-typed Pokemon. It's frequent to see Kricketune show up as a Black/White opponent. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Kricketune is weak to Fire, Flying, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Silver Powder
Ability: Technician
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Bite / X-Scissor
- Frustration / Return
- Brick Break / Rock Smash
- Night Slash / Knock Off
Physical Sweeper Kricketune (Technician)
Kricketune is a phenomenal Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Kricketune from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Kricketune's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Technician, Kricketune's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle.
♦ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Brick Break is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Knock Off is a physical 20-base power Dark-type move (removes the target's held item).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Kricketune? 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: Technician
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Bite / X-Scissor
- Frustration / Return
- Brick Break / Rock Smash
- Night Slash / Knock Off
Doubles Physical Sweeper Kricketune (Technician)
Kricketune is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Kricketune from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Kricketune's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Technician, Kricketune's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle.
♦ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Brick Break is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Knock Off is a physical 20-base power Dark-type move (removes the target's held item).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Kricketune 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 Kricketune 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 Kricketune
- Moves: Swagger + Screech
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Perish song + Protect
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Moves boosted by Technician: Leech Life (BP: 20), Cut (BP: 50), Rock Smash (BP: 40), Fury Cutter (BP: 20), Snore (BP: 40), False Swipe (BP: 40), Mud-Slap (BP: 20), Knock Off (BP: 20), Silver Wind (BP: 60), Aerial Ace (BP: 60), Bug Bite (BP: 60), Echoed Voice (BP: 40), Round (BP: 60), Struggle Bug (BP: 30)
- Moves with Priority: Bide, Endure, Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Kricketune's stats
- Hone Claws
- Silver Wind
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Kricketune
- Knock Off
- Protect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Kricketune in Black and White
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