Competitive Information for Mightyena [Sun/Moon]
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Mightyena? 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.
Mightyena is pretty popular Dark-typed Pokemon. It's pretty common to see Mightyena show up as a Sun/Moon opponent. Mightyena is weak to Bug, Fairy, and Fighting-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Choice Scarf
Ability: Moxie
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Crunch
- Sucker Punch
- Fire Fang
- Ice Fang
Physical Sweeper Mightyena (Popular/Trending)
Mightyena is a wonderful Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Scarf will increase Mightyena's speed by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Mightyena's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Moxie, Mightyena's attack is raised by 1 stage if it attacks and koes another pokemon.
♦ Sucker Punch is a physical STAB-boosted priority-increased 70-base power Dark-type move (usually goes first. fails if target is not attacking).
♦ Fire Fang is a physical 65-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn. 10% chance to flinch).
♦ Ice Fang is a physical 65-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze. 10% chance to flinch).
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Item: Flame Orb / Normalium Z
Ability: Quick Feet
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 148 Hp / 252 Atk / 24 SpD / 84 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Double-Edge
- Throat Chop / Crunch
- Play Rough
- Protect
Physical Sweeper Mightyena (Quick Feet)
Mightyena is a notable Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Mightyena at the end of the turn which will activate Mightyena's Quick Feet ability. Use Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. With Quick Feet, if Mightyena is statused its speed is 1.5x; ignores speed drop from paralysis. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Quick Feet to seriously give Mightyena a sweet boost.
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Throat Chop is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (for 2 turns, the target cannot use sound moves).
♦ Crunch is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Play Rough is a physical 90-base power Fairy-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Mightyena this turn).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Mightyena? 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: Flame Orb / Normalium Z
Ability: Quick Feet
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 148 Hp / 252 Atk / 24 SpD / 84 Spe
Moveset:
- Facade / Double-Edge
- Throat Chop / Crunch
- Play Rough
- Protect
Doubles Physical Sweeper Mightyena (Quick Feet)
Mightyena is a pretty decent Physical Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Flame Orb will burn Mightyena at the end of the turn which will activate Mightyena's Quick Feet ability. Use Protect to help guarantee the Orb activates on your first turn. With Quick Feet, if Mightyena is statused its speed is 1.5x; ignores speed drop from paralysis. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction. Combine that with Quick Feet to seriously give Mightyena a sweet boost.
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Throat Chop is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (for 2 turns, the target cannot use sound moves).
♦ Crunch is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Play Rough is a physical 90-base power Fairy-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Mightyena this turn).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Mightyena 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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Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Mightyena 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 Mightyena
- Moves: Swagger + Foul play
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Yawn + Protect
- Ability: Quick feet + Item: Flame orb
- 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, Snatch, Sucker Punch
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic, Yawn
Moves that boost Mightyena's stats
- Howl
Most notable and possible best moves for Mightyena
- Crunch
- Fire Fang
- Howl
- Ice Fang
- Protect
- Rest
- Snarl
- Sucker Punch
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Mightyena in Sun and Moon
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/4/0/0/252/ )
- Jolly Nature ( 0/252/0/0/4/252/ )
- Optimize Mightyena's EV spread for Pokemon Sun and Moon
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