Competitive Information for Carvanha [Diamond/Pearl]
Water / Dark
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Carvanha? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Diamond/Pearl 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 Diamond/Pearl generation metagame.
Carvanha is pretty popular Water and Dark-typed Pokemon. Carvanha is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Carvanha can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Carvanha is weak to Bug, Electric, Fighting, and Grass-typed attacks.
Item: Razor Fang / Life Orb
Ability: Rough Skin
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Crunch / Bite
- Waterfall / Aqua Jet
- Ice Fang / Double-Edge
- Zen Headbutt
Physical Sweeper Carvanha (Rough Skin)
Carvanha is a wonderful Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Carvanha's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Rough Skin, pokemon making contact with Carvanha lose 1/8 of their max hp. Ice Fang was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Bite is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Dark-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Waterfall is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Aqua Jet is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Water-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Ice Fang is a physical 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 1/3 recoil).
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Carvanha? These builds have been optimized for Diamond/Pearl 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 Diamond/Pearl generation metagame.
Item: Razor Fang / Life Orb
Ability: Rough Skin
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Crunch / Bite
- Waterfall / Aqua Jet
- Ice Fang / Double-Edge
- Zen Headbutt
Doubles Physical Sweeper Carvanha (Rough Skin)
Carvanha is an interesting Physical Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Carvanha's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Rough Skin, pokemon making contact with Carvanha lose 1/8 of their max hp. Ice Fang was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Bite is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Dark-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Waterfall is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Aqua Jet is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 40-base power Water-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Ice Fang is a physical 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 1/3 recoil).
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Carvanha 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 Carvanha can perform in Diamond/Pearl. 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 DP Move and Ability Combos for Carvanha
- Moves: Brine + Super fang
- Moves: Swagger + Screech
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Aqua Jet
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Carvanha's stats
- Agility
- Ancient Power
- Rage
Most notable and possible best moves for Carvanha
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Protect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Carvanha in Diamond and Pearl
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