Competitive Information for Roserade [Sun/Moon]
Grass / Poison
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Roserade? 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.
ZapdosMetagrossBlacephalonBreloomAerodactyl-MegaGarchompStaraptorMiloticTogekissLucario
Roserade is an extraordinary Grass and Poison-typed Pokemon. It's super common to find yourself dealing with Roserade when battling in the 7th generation meta. Roserade is weak to Fire, Flying, Ice, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Black Sludge / Focus Sash
Ability: Technician
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Leaf Storm / Giga Drain
- Sludge Bomb
- Sleep Powder
- Spikes
Special Sweeper Roserade (Popular/Trending)
Roserade is an extraordinary Special Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Technician, Roserade's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle.
♦ Giga Drain is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Roserade recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Sleep Powder is a status move (causes the target to fall asleep).
♦ Spikes is a status move (hurts grounded foes on switch-in. max 3 layers).
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Item: Grassium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Technician
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Hp / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Leaf Storm
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Shadow Ball / Weather Ball
- Dazzling Gleam
Special Sweeper Roserade (Technician)
Roserade is a marvelous Special Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Technician, Roserade's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle. Shadow Ball was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Leaf Storm is a special STAB-boosted 130-base power Grass-type move (lowers your Roserade's special attack by 2 stages).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
♦ Dazzling Gleam is a special 80-base power Fairy-type move (no additional effect. hits adjacent foes).
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Item: Shell Bell
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
EVs: 199 Hp / 199 SpA / 112 SpD
Moveset:
- Leaf Storm
- Energy Ball
- Extrasensory
- Growth
Roserade Special Tank (A Rose By Any Name)
Roserade is a fabulous Special Tank. This moveset attempts to take a decent amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. With Natural Cure, Roserade has its major status condition cured when it switches out.
♦ Energy Ball is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Extrasensory is a special 80-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Growth is a status move (raises Roserade's attack and special attack by 1 stage; 2 in sun).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Roserade? 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.
ZapdosMetagrossBlacephalonBreloomAerodactyl-MegaGarchompStaraptorMiloticTogekissLucario
Item: Grassium Z / Focus Sash
Ability: Technician
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Hp / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Petal Dance / Leaf Storm
- Dazzling Gleam
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Shadow Ball / Weather Ball
Doubles Special Sweeper Roserade (Technician)
Roserade is a marvelous Special Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Roserade from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Technician, Roserade's moves of 60 power or less have 1.5x power. includes struggle. Shadow Ball was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Leaf Storm is a special STAB-boosted 130-base power Grass-type move (lowers your Roserade's special attack by 2 stages).
♦ Dazzling Gleam is a special 80-base power Fairy-type move (no additional effect. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Roserade 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 Roserade 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 Roserade
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Sunny day + Growth
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Grassy terrain + Secret power
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Leech seed
- Moves: Ingrain + Leech seed
- Moves: Toxic + Leech seed
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves boosted by Technician: Magical Leaf (BP: 60), Swift (BP: 60), Absorb (BP: 20), Bullet Seed (BP: 25), Covet (BP: 60), Hidden Power (BP: 60), Mega Drain (BP: 40), Mud-Slap (BP: 20), Pin Missile (BP: 25), Poison Sting (BP: 15), Round (BP: 60), Snore (BP: 50), Razor Leaf (BP: 55), Weather Ball (BP: 50), Cut (BP: 50), Fury Cutter (BP: 40)
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Toxic
Moves that boost Roserade's stats
- Growth
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Roserade
- Dazzling Gleam
- Energy Ball
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power
- Hidden Power Fire
- Hidden Power Ground
- Hidden Power Ice
- Leaf Storm
- Leech Seed
- Nature Power
- Protect
- Rest
- Shadow Ball
- Sleep Powder
- Sludge Bomb
- Spikes
- Synthesis
- Toxic
- Toxic
- Toxic Spikes
- Weather Ball
Common Effort Values for Roserade in Sun and Moon
- Timid Nature ( 0/0/0/252/4/252/ )
- Calm Nature ( 248/0/0/44/216/0/ )
- Optimize Roserade's EV spread for Pokemon Sun and Moon
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