Competitive Information for Illumise [Diamond/Pearl]
Bug
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Illumise? 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.
Illumise is a notable Bug-typed Pokemon. It's frequent to see Illumise show up as a Diamond/Pearl opponent. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Illumise is weak to Fire, Flying, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Specs
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Buzz / Silver Wind
- Thunderbolt / Charge Beam
- Air Cutter
- Shadow Ball / Ominous Wind
Special Sweeper Illumise (Oblivious)
Illumise is an awesome Special Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Illumise from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Illumise's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Oblivious, Illumise cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it.
♦ Silver Wind is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Charge Beam is a special 50-base power Electric-type move (70% chance to raise your Illumise's special attack by 1 stage).
♦ Air Cutter is a special 55-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Ominous Wind is a special 60-base power Ghost-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Illumise? 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: Focus Sash / Choice Specs
Ability: Oblivious
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Air Cutter
- Bug Buzz / Silver Wind
- Thunderbolt / Charge Beam
- Shadow Ball / Ominous Wind
Doubles Special Sweeper Illumise (Oblivious)
Illumise is popular Special Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Illumise from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Illumise's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Oblivious, Illumise cannot be infatuated. gaining this ability while infatuated cures it.
♦ Bug Buzz is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Silver Wind is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Charge Beam is a special 50-base power Electric-type move (70% chance to raise your Illumise's special attack by 1 stage).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Ominous Wind is a special 60-base power Ghost-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Illumise 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 Illumise 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 Illumise
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- Moves: Wish + Baton pass
- Moves: Swagger + Flatter
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Flatter + Psych up
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Dynamic Punch
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Helping Hand, Protect, Quick Attack
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Illumise's stats
- Charge Beam
- Growth
- Ominous Wind
- Silver Wind
Most notable and possible best moves for Illumise
- Baton Pass
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Illumise in Diamond and Pearl
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