Competitive Information for Meloetta (pirouette) [Sun/Moon]
Normal / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Meloetta-pirouette? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Sun/Moon 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 Sun/Moon generation metagame.
Meloetta is an awesome Normal and Fighting-typed Pokemon. It's normal to find yourself dealing with Meloetta when battling in the 7th generation meta. Meloetta is weak to Fairy, Fighting, Flying, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Fightinium Z / King's Rock
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 36 SpD / 20 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Knock Off
- Shadow Claw
Physical Sweeper Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Physical Sweeper for single battles. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled. With a Fightinium Z equipped to it, if Meloetta has a fighting move, this item allows it to use a fighting z-move.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a nice amount of damage.
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Meloetta-pirouette? These builds have been optimized for Sun/Moon 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 Sun/Moon generation metagame.
Item: Fightinium Z / King's Rock
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 200 Hp / 252 Atk / 36 SpD / 20 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Knock Off
- Shadow Claw
Doubles Physical Sweeper Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Physical Sweeper for double battles. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled. With a Fightinium Z equipped to it, if Meloetta has a fighting move, this item allows it to use a fighting z-move.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a decent amount of damage.
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Item: Fightinium Z / King's Rock
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 216 Hp / 252 Atk / 40 SpD
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Return / Strength
- Knock Off
- Trick Room
Offensive Trick Room Meloetta-Pirouette (Serene Grace)
Meloetta is a legendary Offensive Trick Room for single battles. King's Rock grants all attacking moves (that do not already have a chance to flinch) a 10% chance of causing each target to flinch. With Serene Grace, Meloetta's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled. With a Fightinium Z equipped to it, if Meloetta has a fighting move, this item allows it to use a fighting z-move.
◆ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Meloetta recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Return is a physical STAB-boosted 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
◆ Strength is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a hefty amount of damage.
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. For 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Meloetta-pirouette 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 Meloetta-pirouette can perform in Sun/Moon. 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 SM Move and Ability Combos for Meloetta-pirouette
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Perish song + Protect
- Ability: Serene grace + Item: King's rock
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Psychic
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunder
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunderbolt
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Confusion
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fire Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Ice Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Psybeam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Thunder Punch
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Rock Smash
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Shadow Ball
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Secret Power
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Signal Beam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fling
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Energy Ball
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Charge Beam
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Focus Blast
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Zen Headbutt
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Low Sweep
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Relic Song
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Power-Up Punch
- Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Protect, Magic Coat, Snatch, Helping Hand, Ally Switch
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Meloetta-pirouette's stats
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Hone Claws
- Power-Up Punch
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Meloetta-pirouette
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Meloetta-pirouette in Sun and Moon
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