Competitive Information for Meloetta (pirouette) [Black/White]
Normal / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Meloetta-pirouette? 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.
Meloetta is pretty popular Normal and Fighting-typed Pokemon. It's frequent to see Meloetta show up as a Black/White opponent. Meloetta is typically seen in the UU tier (Underused). Meloetta is weak to Fighting, Flying, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: King's Rock / Life Orb
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 36 SpD / 20 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Shadow Claw
- Thunder Punch
Physical Sweeper Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Physical Sweeper for single battles. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. Life Orb boosts the power of Meloetta's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a mighty amount of damage.
◆ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Thunder Punch is a physical 75-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Meloetta-pirouette? 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: King's Rock / Life Orb
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 36 SpD / 20 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Shadow Claw
- Thunder Punch
Doubles Physical Sweeper Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Physical Sweeper for double battles. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. Life Orb boosts the power of Meloetta's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
◆ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Thunder Punch is a physical 75-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
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Item: King's Rock / Life Orb
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 216 Hp / 252 Atk / 40 SpD
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Shadow Claw
- Trick Room
Offensive Trick Room Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Offensive Trick Room for single battles. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. Life Orb boosts the power of Meloetta's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a considerable amount of damage.
◆ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Meloetta-pirouette learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
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Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Meloetta-pirouette 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 Meloetta-pirouette
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Perish song + Protect
- Ability: Serene grace + Item: King's rock
- 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
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Psychic
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunder
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunderbolt
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Confusion
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fire Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Ice Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Psybeam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunder Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Rock Smash
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Shadow Ball
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Signal Beam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fling
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Energy Ball
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Charge Beam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Focus Blast
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Zen Headbutt
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Low Sweep
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Relic Song
- Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Protect, Magic Coat, Snatch, Helping Hand
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Meloetta-pirouette's stats
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Hone Claws
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Meloetta-pirouette
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Meloetta-pirouette in Black and White
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