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Competitive Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Movesets and Strategies for Makuhita

Base Stats for Makuhita

Fighting

Abilities:
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Evolutions / Family:
Makuhita
Hariyama

Weakness Chart for Fighting-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

Grass

0.5x

2x

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

2x

0.5x

¼x

½x

2x

4x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Makuhita? 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.

Makuhita is a wonderful Fighting-typed Pokemon. Makuhita is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Makuhita can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Makuhita's only type-related weaknesses are Flying and Psychic.

Species: Makuhita
Item: Flame Orb
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Brick Break
- Facade / Double-Edge
- Earthquake
- Detect / Protect

Physical Sweeper Makuhita (Guts)

Makuhita is a wonderful Physical Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Makuhita at the end of the turn which will activate Makuhita's Guts ability. Use Detect or Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. With Guts, if Makuhita is statused its attack is 1.5x; ignores burn halving physical damage. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Guts to seriously give Makuhita a sweet boost.

♦ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Makuhita's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, even if the target is immune).
♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Makuhita is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 1/3 recoil).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. power doubles on dig).
♦ Detect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Makuhita this turn).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Makuhita this turn).

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Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Makuhita? 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.

Species: Makuhita
Item: Flame Orb
Ability: Guts
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Brick Break
- Earthquake
- Facade / Double-Edge
- Detect / Protect

Doubles Physical Sweeper Makuhita (Guts)

Makuhita is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It tries to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Makuhita at the end of the turn which will activate Makuhita's Guts ability. Use Detect or Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. With Guts, if Makuhita is statused its attack is 1.5x; ignores burn halving physical damage. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Guts to seriously give Makuhita a sweet boost.

♦ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Makuhita's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, even if the target is immune).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. power doubles on dig).
♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Makuhita is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 1/3 recoil).
♦ Detect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Makuhita this turn).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Makuhita this turn).

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Movepool

Wondering what moves can Makuhita 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.

Combo List

These are a list of several common move combinations Makuhita 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 Makuhita

Moves: Belly drum + Rest
Moves: Endure + Reversal
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Rest + Snore
Moves: Substitute + Reversal
Ability: Guts + Item: Flame orb
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: Detect, Endure, Helping Hand, Protect, Bullet Punch, Fake Out, Feint, Vacuum Wave
Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
Moves that inflict status: Toxic

Moves that boost Makuhita's stats

Belly Drum
Bulk Up

Most notable and possible best moves for Makuhita

Earthquake
Fake Out
Knock Off
Protect
Rest
Toxic

Common Effort Values for Makuhita in Diamond and Pearl

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Competitive Information for Makuhita [Diamond/Pearl]