Competitive Information for Vanillish [Black/White]
Ice
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Vanillish? 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.
Vanillish is a marvelous Ice-typed Pokemon. Vanillish is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Vanillish is weak to Fighting, Fire, Rock, and Steel-typed attacks.
Item: White Herb / Life Orb
Ability: Weak Armor
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Frustration / Return
- Avalanche / Ice Shard
- Astonish
- Acid Armor
Physical Sweeper Vanillish (Weak Armor)
Vanillish is a pretty decent Physical Sweeper. This moveset attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Vanillish's negative stat changes once. Focus Sash helps protect Vanillish from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Vanillish's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Weak Armor, if a physical attack hits Vanillish defense is lowered by 1 speed is raised by 1.
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Avalanche is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ice-type move (power doubles if Vanillish is damaged by the target).
♦ Ice Shard is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Ice-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Astonish is a physical 30-base power Ghost-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Acid Armor is a status move (raises your Vanillish's defense by 2 stages).
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Item: White Herb / Life Orb
Ability: Weak Armor
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Ice Beam / Icy Wind
- Flash Cannon
- Signal Beam
- Water Pulse
Special Sweeper Vanillish (Weak Armor)
Vanillish is an outstanding Special Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. White Herb will reset Vanillish's negative stat changes once. Focus Sash helps protect Vanillish from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Vanillish's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Weak Armor, if a physical attack hits Vanillish defense is lowered by 1 speed is raised by 1.
♦ Icy Wind is a special STAB-boosted 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
♦ Flash Cannon is a special 80-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Signal Beam is a special 75-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to confuse the target).
♦ Water Pulse is a special 60-base power Water-type move (20% chance to confuse the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Vanillish? 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: White Herb / Life Orb
Ability: Weak Armor
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Frustration / Return
- Avalanche / Ice Shard
- Astonish
- Acid Armor
Doubles Physical Sweeper Vanillish (Weak Armor)
Vanillish is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Vanillish's negative stat changes once. Focus Sash helps protect Vanillish from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Vanillish's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Weak Armor, if a physical attack hits Vanillish defense is lowered by 1 speed is raised by 1.
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Avalanche is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Ice-type move (power doubles if Vanillish is damaged by the target).
♦ Ice Shard is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Ice-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Astonish is a physical 30-base power Ghost-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Acid Armor is a status move (raises your Vanillish's defense by 2 stages).
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Item: White Herb / Life Orb
Ability: Weak Armor
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Flash Cannon
- Signal Beam
- Water Pulse
Doubles Special Sweeper Vanillish (Weak Armor)
Vanillish is a remarkable Special Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. White Herb will reset Vanillish's negative stat changes once. Focus Sash helps protect Vanillish from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Vanillish's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Weak Armor, if a physical attack hits Vanillish defense is lowered by 1 speed is raised by 1.
♦ Ice Beam is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Flash Cannon is a special 80-base power Steel-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Signal Beam is a special 75-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to confuse the target).
♦ Water Pulse is a special 60-base power Water-type move (20% chance to confuse the target).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Vanillish 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 Vanillish 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 Vanillish
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Weak armor + Item: White herb
- Ability: Weak armor + Item: Weakness policy
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Protect, Magic Coat, Ice Shard
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Vanillish's stats
- Acid Armor
- Autotomize
- Harden
- Iron Defense
Most notable and possible best moves for Vanillish
- Ice Beam
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Vanillish in Black and White
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