What is a good competitive moveset for Natu? 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.
Natu is a notable Psychic and Flying-typed Pokemon. Natu is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Natu is weak to Dark, Electric, Ghost, Ice, and Rock-typed attacks.
Natu is a pretty decent Special Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Natu from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Natu's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Magic Bounce, Natu blocks certain status moves and bounces them back to the user.
♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage). ♦ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense). ♦ Heat Wave is a special 100-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes). ♦ 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)). ♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
No additional EV spread were found for this set at this time.Array
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Natu? 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.
Species: Natu Item: Life Orb / Charcoal Ability: Magic Bounce Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk) EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Moveset: - Heat Wave - Synchronoise / Psychic - Air Cutter - Twister
Doubles Special Sweeper Natu (Magic Bounce)
Natu is a marvelous Special Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Natu from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Natu's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Magic Bounce, Natu blocks certain status moves and bounces them back to the user.
♦ Heat Wave is a special 100-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes). ♦ Synchronoise is a special STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (hits adjacent pokemon sharing your Natu's type). ♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage). ♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes). ♦ Twister is a special 40-base power Dragon-type move (20% chance to flinch the foes).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Natu 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.
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Note: The damage listed here under Versus is not actually calculated using the in-game damage formula. It is simply calculated using typing weaknesses and resistances from the selected type-matchup modifier along with STAB (if applied) to help sort through and give a general idea as to how powerful certain moves might be towards that selected typing after modifiers are applied. Several moves listed here may have additional effects that might alter actual damage output which are not factored on this specific list. Use damage calculators to find actual damage amounts.
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Natu 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.
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