Competitive Information for Roggenrola [Sun/Moon]
Rock
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Roggenrola? 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.
Roggenrola is a pretty decent Rock-typed Pokemon. Roggenrola is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Roggenrola can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Roggenrola is weak to Fighting, Grass, Ground, Steel, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Rockium Z / Life Orb
Ability: Sand Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 16 Hp / 252 Atk / 240 SpD
Moveset:
- Rock Slide / Rock Tomb
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Return / Strength
- Rock Smash
Physical Sweeper Roggenrola (Sand Force)
Roggenrola is an interesting Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Roggenrola's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sand Force, Roggenrola's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it.
♦ Rock Tomb is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Rock-type move (100% chance to lower the target's speed by 1 stage).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Bulldoze is a physical 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Strength is a physical 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a good amount of damage.
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Item: Normalium Z / White Herb
Ability: Weak Armor
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 16 Hp / 252 Atk / 240 SpD
Moveset:
- Return / Strength
- Rock Slide / Rock Tomb
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Smash
Physical Sweeper Roggenrola (Weak Armor)
Roggenrola is a wonderful Physical Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. White Herb will reset Roggenrola's negative stat changes once. With Weak Armor, if a physical attack hits Roggenrola it's defense is lowered by 1 and it's speed is increased by 2 stages.
♦ Strength is a physical 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a decent amount of damage.
♦ Rock Slide is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Rock Tomb is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Rock-type move (100% chance to lower the target's speed by 1 stage).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Bulldoze is a physical 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Roggenrola? 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: Rockium Z / Life Orb
Ability: Sand Force / Weak Armor
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 16 Hp / 252 Atk / 240 SpD
Moveset:
- Rock Slide / Rock Tomb
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Return / Strength
- Rock Smash
Doubles Physical Sweeper Roggenrola (Sand Force)
Roggenrola is a stupendous Physical Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Roggenrola's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Sand Force, Roggenrola's ground/rock/steel attacks do 1.3x in sandstorm; immunity to it.
♦ Rock Tomb is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Rock-type move (100% chance to lower the target's speed by 1 stage).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Bulldoze is a physical 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ Strength is a physical 80-base power Normal-type move that deals a mighty amount of damage.
♦ Rock Smash is a physical 40-base power Fighting-type move (50% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Roggenrola 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 Roggenrola 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 Roggenrola
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Weak armor + Item: White herb
- Ability: Weak armor + Item: Weakness policy
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Protect, Wide Guard
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Roggenrola's stats
- Autotomize
- Curse
- Harden
- Iron Defense
- Rock Polish
Most notable and possible best moves for Roggenrola
- Earthquake
- Protect
- Rest
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Roggenrola in Sun and Moon
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