Competitive Information for Roserade [Black/White]
Grass / Poison
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Roserade? 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.
JellicentHeatranLandorus-TherianSkarmoryScizorChanseyAerodactylXatuHippowdonRotom-Heat
Roserade is a marvelous Grass and Poison-typed Pokemon. It's almost common to find yourself dealing with Roserade when battling in the 5th generation meta. Roserade is typically seen in the UU tier (Underused). Roserade is weak to Fire, Flying, Ice, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Black Sludge / Focus Sash
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Calm (+SpD, -Atk)
EVs: 252 Hp / 120 Def / 136 SpD
Moveset:
- Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Rest
- Spikes
- Toxic Spikes
Double Wall Roserade (Popular/Trending)
Roserade is an awesome Double Wall. The purpose of this moveset is to have enough defenses and bulk to take both physical and special hits. Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Natural Cure, Roserade has its major status condition cured when it switches out.
♦ Leech Seed is a status move (1/8 of target's hp is restored to Roserade every turn).
♦ Rest is a status move (Roserade sleeps 2 turns and restores hp and status).
♦ Spikes is a status move (hurts grounded foes on switch-in. max 3 layers).
♦ Toxic Spikes is a status move (poisons grounded foes on switch-in. max 2 layers).
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Item: Life Orb / Miracle Seed
Ability: Technician
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Def / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Leaf Storm / Petal Dance
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Round / Weather Ball
- Shadow Ball
Special Sweeper Roserade (Technician)
Roserade is pretty popular Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. White Herb will reset Roserade's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Leaf Storm). Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Roserade's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Technician, Roserade's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle.
♦ Petal Dance is a special STAB-boosted 120-base power Grass-type move (lasts 2-3 turns. confuses your Roserade afterwards).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Item: Shell Bell
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
EVs: 199 Hp / 199 SpA / 112 SpD
Moveset:
- Leaf Storm
- Energy Ball
- Extrasensory
- Growth
Roserade Special Tank (A Rose By Any Name)
Roserade is an extraordinary Special Tank. It is primarily designed to take a large amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. With Natural Cure, Roserade has its major status condition cured when it switches out.
♦ Energy Ball is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Extrasensory is a special 80-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Growth is a status move (raises Roserade's attack and special attack by 1 stage; 2 in sun).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Roserade? 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.
JellicentHeatranLandorus-TherianSkarmoryScizorChanseyAerodactylXatuHippowdonRotom-Heat
Item: Life Orb / Miracle Seed
Ability: Technician
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Def / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Leaf Storm / Petal Dance
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Round / Weather Ball
- Shadow Ball
Doubles Special Sweeper Roserade (Technician)
Roserade is popular Special Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. White Herb will reset Roserade's negative stat changes once (specifically for when it uses Leaf Storm). Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Roserade's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Technician, Roserade's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle.
♦ Petal Dance is a special STAB-boosted 120-base power Grass-type move (lasts 2-3 turns. confuses your Roserade afterwards).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Roserade 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 Roserade 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 Roserade
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Leech seed
- Moves: Ingrain + Leech seed
- Moves: Toxic + Leech seed
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves boosted by Technician: Magical Leaf (BP: 60), Swift (BP: 60), Absorb (BP: 20), Bullet Seed (BP: 25), Covet (BP: 60), Mega Drain (BP: 40), Mud-Slap (BP: 20), Razor Leaf (BP: 55), Poison Sting (BP: 15), Round (BP: 60), Snore (BP: 40), Weather Ball (BP: 50), Pin Missile (BP: 14), Cut (BP: 50), Fury Cutter (BP: 20)
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Toxic
Moves that boost Roserade's stats
- Growth
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Roserade
- Energy Ball
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power Fire
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Rest
- Sludge Bomb
- Spikes
- Toxic
- Toxic Spikes
Common Effort Values for Roserade in Black and White
- Calm Nature ( 252/0/120/0/136/0/ )
- Timid Nature ( 0/0/0/252/4/252/ )
- Optimize Roserade's EV spread for Pokemon Black and White
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