Competitive Information for Swanna [Black/White]
Water / Flying
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Swanna? 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.
Swanna is pretty popular Water and Flying-typed Pokemon. It's pretty standard to find yourself dealing with Swanna when battling in the 5th generation meta. Swanna's only type-related weaknesses are Electric and Rock.
Item: Life Orb / Sharp Beak
Ability: Big Pecks
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Brave Bird / Sky Attack
- Frustration / Return
- Steel Wing
- Dive
Physical Sweeper Swanna (Big Pecks)
Swanna is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Swanna from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Swanna's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Big Pecks, prevents other pokemon from lowering Swanna's defense stat stage.
♦ Sky Attack is a physical STAB-boosted 140-base power Flying-type move (charges, then hits turn 2. 30% flinch. high crit).
♦ 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).
♦ Steel Wing is a physical 70-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to raise your Swanna's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
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Item: Life Orb / Mystic Water
Ability: Big Pecks
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Surf / Scald
- Air Slash / Air Cutter
- Ice Beam / Icy Wind
- Hyper Beam / Round
Special Sweeper Swanna (Big Pecks)
Swanna is an outstanding Special Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Swanna from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Swanna's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Big Pecks, prevents other pokemon from lowering Swanna's defense stat stage.
♦ Scald is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (30% chance to burn the target).
♦ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Ice Beam is a special 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Swanna cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Swanna? 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 / Sharp Beak
Ability: Big Pecks
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Brave Bird / Sky Attack
- Frustration / Return
- Steel Wing
- Dive
Doubles Physical Sweeper Swanna (Big Pecks)
Swanna is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Swanna from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Swanna's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Big Pecks, prevents other pokemon from lowering Swanna's defense stat stage.
♦ Sky Attack is a physical STAB-boosted 140-base power Flying-type move (charges, then hits turn 2. 30% flinch. high crit).
♦ 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).
♦ Steel Wing is a physical 70-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to raise your Swanna's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Dive is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (dives underwater turn 1, strikes turn 2).
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Item: Life Orb / Mystic Water
Ability: Big Pecks
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Surf / Scald
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Hyper Beam / Round
Doubles Special Sweeper Swanna (Big Pecks)
Swanna is a fabulous Special Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Swanna from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Swanna's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Big Pecks, prevents other pokemon from lowering Swanna's defense stat stage.
♦ Scald is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (30% chance to burn the target).
♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ 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).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Swanna cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Swanna 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 Swanna 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 Swanna
- 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: Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Defog
- Moves that inflict status: Scald, Toxic
Moves that boost Swanna's stats
- Steel Wing
Most notable and possible best moves for Swanna
- Ice Beam
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Scald
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Swanna in Black and White
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