Competitive Information for Pignite [Black/White]
Fire / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Pignite? 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.
Pignite is a notable Fire and Fighting-typed Pokemon. Pignite is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Pignite is weak to Flying, Ground, Psychic, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Charcoal
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Flare Blitz / Fire Punch
- Superpower / Brick Break
- Return / Frustration
- Wild Charge / Thunder Punch
Physical Sweeper Pignite
Pignite is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Pignite's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Pignite from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Pignite's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Blaze, at 1/3 or less of its max hp Pignite's attacking stat is 1.5x with fire attacks.
♦ Fire Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Superpower is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Pignite's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Wild Charge is a physical 90-base power Electric-type move (has 1/4 recoil).
♦ 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 Pignite? 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 / Charcoal
Ability: Blaze
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Flare Blitz / Fire Punch
- Superpower / Brick Break
- Rock Slide
- Frustration / Return
Doubles Physical Sweeper Pignite
Pignite is an interesting Physical Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Pignite's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Pignite from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Pignite's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Blaze, at 1/3 or less of its max hp Pignite's attacking stat is 1.5x with fire attacks.
♦ Fire Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Superpower is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Pignite's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ 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).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Pignite 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 Pignite 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 Pignite
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Yawn + Protect
- Ability: Blaze + Item: Focus sash
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Moves with Priority: Protect, Helping Hand
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic, Will-O-Wisp, Yawn
Moves that boost Pignite's stats
- Curse
- Defense Curl
- Flame Charge
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Pignite
- Head Smash
- Protect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Pignite in Black and White
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