What is a good competitive moveset for Mawile? 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.
Mawile is an extraordinary Steel-typed Pokemon. It's frequent to find yourself dealing with Mawile when battling in the 4th generation meta. Mawile is weak to Fighting, Fire, and Ground-typed attacks.
Species: Mawile Item: Focus Sash / Choice Band Ability: Hyper Cutter Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA) EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 56 SpD Moveset: - Ice Punch / Rock Slide - Iron Head - Sucker Punch / Crunch - Thunder Punch
Physical Sweeper Mawile (Hyper Cutter)
Mawile is a decent Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Mawile from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Band will increase the damage of Mawile's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Hyper Cutter, prevents other pokemon from lowering Mawile's attack stat stage. Ice Punch or Rock Slide are added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target). ♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes). ♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target). ♦ Sucker Punch is a physical priority-increased 80-base power Dark-type move (usually goes first. fails if target is not attacking). ♦ Crunch is a physical 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage). ♦ Thunder Punch is a physical 75-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Mawile? 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: Mawile Item: Focus Sash / Razor Fang Ability: Hyper Cutter Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA) EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 56 SpD Moveset: - Rock Slide - Ice Punch / Double-Edge - Iron Head - Sucker Punch / Crunch
Doubles Physical Sweeper Mawile (Hyper Cutter)
Mawile is an astounding Physical Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Mawile from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Hyper Cutter, prevents other pokemon from lowering Mawile's attack stat stage. Ice Punch was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes). ♦ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target). ♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 1/3 recoil). ♦ Iron Head is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Steel-type move (30% chance to flinch the target). ♦ Sucker Punch is a physical priority-increased 80-base power Dark-type move (usually goes first. fails if target is not attacking). ♦ Crunch is a physical 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Mawile 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.
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Note: The damage listed here under Versus is not actually calculated using the in-game damage formula. It is simply calculated using typing weaknesses and resistances from the selected type-matchup modifier along with STAB (if applied) to help sort through and give a general idea as to how powerful certain moves might be towards that selected typing after modifiers are applied. Several moves listed here may have additional effects that might alter actual damage output which are not factored on this specific list. Use damage calculators to find actual damage amounts.
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Mawile 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 Mawile
Moves: Sunny Day + Solar Beam
Moves: Swagger + Psych Up
Moves: Swagger + Punishment
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Stockpile + Spit Up
Moves: Stockpile + Swallow
Moves: Pain Split + Toxic
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, Protect, Sucker Punch
Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
Most notable and possible best moves for Mawile
Protect
Rest
Common Effort Values for Mawile in Diamond and Pearl
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