Competitive Information for Piloswine [Black/White]
Ice / Ground
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Piloswine? 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.
Piloswine is a pretty decent Ice and Ground-typed Pokemon. Piloswine is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Piloswine is weak to Fighting, Fire, Grass, Steel, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Soft Sand
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Slide / Double-Edge
- Superpower / Rock Smash
- Icicle Crash / Ice Fang
Physical Sweeper Piloswine (Oblivious)
Piloswine is an astounding Physical Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Piloswine's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Piloswine from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Piloswine's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Oblivious, Piloswine cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it. Rock Slide was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Bulldoze is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Piloswine's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Ice Fang is a physical STAB-boosted 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
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Item: Eviolite
Ability: Thick Fat
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 245 Hp / 245 Atk / 20 Spe
Moveset:
- Icicle Crash
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Roar
Piloswine Physical Tank (Swine Before Pearls)
Piloswine is a notable Physical Tank. It's meant to take a substantial amount of physical hits while dealing some decent damage. Piloswine is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield without an Eviolite. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. With Thick Fat, fire/ice-type moves against Piloswine deal damage with a halved attacking stat.
♦ Stealth Rock is a status move (hurts foes on switch-in. factors rock weakness).
♦ Earthquake is a physical STAB-boosted 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Roar is a status move (forces the target to switch to a random ally).
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Item: Wide Lens
Ability: Thick Fat
Nature: Impish (+Def, -SpA)
EVs: 56 Hp / 214 Atk / 240 Def
Moveset:
- Stealth Rock
- Light Screen
- Earthquake
- Roar
Piloswine Physical Tank (Pearls Before Piloswine)
Piloswine is popular Physical Tank. It's goal is to take a hefty amount of physical hits while dealing some decent damage. Wide Lens will help improve the accuracy of Piloswine's moves. With Thick Fat, fire/ice-type moves against Piloswine deal damage with a halved attacking stat.
♦ Light Screen is a status move (for 5 turns, special damage to allies is halved).
♦ Earthquake is a physical STAB-boosted 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Roar is a status move (forces the target to switch to a random ally).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Piloswine? 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 / Soft Sand
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Slide
- Icicle Crash / Double-Edge
- Superpower / Rock Smash
Doubles Physical Sweeper Piloswine (Oblivious)
Piloswine is a stupendous Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Piloswine's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Superpower). Focus Sash helps protect Piloswine from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Piloswine's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Oblivious, Piloswine cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it. Icicle Crash was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Bulldoze is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Piloswine's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Piloswine 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 Piloswine 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 Piloswine
- Moves: Endure + Flail
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Ice Shard
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Piloswine's stats
- Amnesia
- Ancient Power
- Curse
- Defense Curl
Most notable and possible best moves for Piloswine
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Piloswine in Black and White
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