Competitive Information for Remoraid [Black/White]
Water
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Remoraid? 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.
Remoraid is a fabulous Water-typed Pokemon. Remoraid is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Remoraid can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Remoraid's only type-related weaknesses are Electric and Grass.
Item: Wide Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Hustle
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Waterfall / Dive
- Gunk Shot
- Seed Bomb
Physical Sweeper Remoraid (Hustle)
Remoraid is a decent Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Remoraid from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Remoraid's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. Wide Lens will help improve the accuracy of Remoraid's moves. This is important since it's Hustle ability lowers the accuracy of it's moves. With Hustle, Remoraid's attack is 1.5x and accuracy of its physical attacks is 0.8x.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Waterfall is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
♦ Gunk Shot is a physical 120-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a mighty amount of damage.
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Item: Scope Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Water Spout / Surf
- Flamethrower
- Ice Beam / Aurora Beam
- Psychic / Psybeam
Special Sweeper Remoraid (Sniper)
Remoraid is a phenomenal Special Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Remoraid critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Remoraid's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Remoraid from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Remoraid's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sniper, if Remoraid strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5.
♦ Surf is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Water-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. double damage on dive).
♦ Flamethrower is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Ice Beam is a special 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Aurora Beam is a special 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psybeam is a special 65-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to confuse the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Remoraid? 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: Wide Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Hustle
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Frustration
- Waterfall / Dive
- Gunk Shot
- Seed Bomb
Doubles Physical Sweeper Remoraid (Hustle)
Remoraid is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Remoraid from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Remoraid's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. Wide Lens will help improve the accuracy of Remoraid's moves. This is important since it's Hustle ability lowers the accuracy of it's moves. With Hustle, Remoraid's attack is 1.5x and accuracy of its physical attacks is 0.8x.
♦ Frustration is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at minimum happiness).
♦ Waterfall is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
♦ Gunk Shot is a physical 120-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a nice amount of damage.
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Item: Scope Lens / Life Orb
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Water Spout / Surf
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Flamethrower / Incinerate
- Psychic / Psybeam
Doubles Special Sweeper Remoraid (Sniper)
Remoraid is pretty popular Special Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Remoraid critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Remoraid's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Remoraid from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Remoraid's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sniper, if Remoraid strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5.
♦ Surf is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Water-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. double damage on dive).
♦ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
♦ Ice Beam is a special 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Flamethrower is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Incinerate is a special 30-base power Fire-type move (destroys the foes berry).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psybeam is a special 65-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to confuse the target).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Remoraid 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 Remoraid 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 Remoraid
- Moves: Swagger + Screech
- Moves: Endure + Flail
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Sniper + Item: Scope lens
- Ability: Hustle + Item: Blunder policy
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Scald, Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Remoraid's stats
- Charge Beam
- Defense Curl
Most notable and possible best moves for Remoraid
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Protect
- Rest
- Scald
- Toxic
- Water Spout
Common Effort Values for Remoraid in Black and White
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