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Competitive Pokemon Sword/Shield Movesets and Strategies for Beartic

Base Stats for Beartic

Ice

Abilities:
,
,

Evolutions / Family:
Cubchoo
Beartic

Weakness Chart for Ice-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fairy

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

2x

Grass

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

0.5x

2x

¼x

½x

2x

4x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Beartic? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Sword/Shield 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 Sword/Shield generation metagame.

Common team mates for Beartic in Pokemon Sword/Shield:

Ninetales-AlolaTogekissIndeedee-FRillaboomPolitoedLaprasFroslassCinderaceUrshifuGothitelle

Beartic is an interesting Ice-typed Pokemon. It's usual to find yourself dealing with Beartic when battling in the 8th generation meta. Beartic is weak to Fighting, Fire, Rock, and Steel-typed attacks.

Species: Beartic
Item: Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Slush Rush
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Superpower / Low Kick
- Play Rough
- Icicle Crash
- Liquidation

Physical Sweeper Beartic (Popular/Trending)

Beartic is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Beartic's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Beartic's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Slush Rush, if hail is active Beartic's speed is doubled.

♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Beartic's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Low Kick is a physical 0-base power Fighting-type move (more power the heavier the target).
♦ Play Rough is a physical 90-base power Fairy-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
♦ Liquidation is a physical 85-base power Water-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).

Species: Beartic
Item: Eject Pack / Choice Band
Ability: Slush Rush
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Moveset:
- Superpower
- Icicle Crash / Ice Punch
- Night Slash
- Slash

Physical Sweeper Beartic (Slush Rush)

Beartic is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Beartic's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Slush Rush, if hail is active Beartic's speed is doubled.

♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Beartic's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
♦ Ice Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).

Species: Beartic
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Swift Swim
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Icicle Crash
- Encore
- Low Kick / Superpower
- Swords Dance

Beartic Physical Sweeper (Dancing Polar Bear)

Beartic is a spectacular Physical Sweeper. It tries to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Beartic's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Swift Swim, Beartic's speed is doubled during rainy weather.

♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
♦ Encore is a status move (target repeats its last move for its next 3 turns).
♦ Low Kick is a physical 0-base power Fighting-type move (more power the heavier the target).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Beartic's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Swords Dance is a status move (raises your Beartic's attack by 2 stages).

Species: Beartic
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Swift Swim
Nature: Naughty (+Atk, -SpD)
EVs: 213 Hp / 64 Atk / 233 Spe
Moveset:
- Aqua Jet
- Night Slash
- Rain Dance
- Rock Slide

Beartic Physical Sweeper (Rawwwwwwwr)

Beartic is a spectacular Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Beartic's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Swift Swim, Beartic's speed is doubled during rainy weather.

♦ Aqua Jet is a physical priority-increased 40-base power Water-type move (usually goes first).
♦ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Rain Dance is a status move (for 5 turns, heavy rain powers water moves).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to make the foes flinch).

Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Beartic? These builds have been optimized for Sword/Shield 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 Sword/Shield generation metagame.

Common team mates for Beartic in Pokemon Sword/Shield:

Ninetales-AlolaTogekissIndeedee-FRillaboomPolitoedLaprasFroslassCinderaceUrshifuGothitelle

Species: Beartic
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Swift Swim
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Icicle Crash
- Liquidation
- Throat Chop
- Protect

Doubles Physical Sweeper Beartic (Popular VGC)

Beartic is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. This particular build was popular during past competitions. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Beartic's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Swift Swim, Beartic's speed is doubled during rainy weather.

♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
♦ Liquidation is a physical 85-base power Water-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Throat Chop is a physical 80-base power Dark-type move (for 2 turns, the target cannot use sound moves).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Beartic this turn).

Species: Beartic
Item: Eject Pack / Choice Band
Ability: Slush Rush
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Moveset:
- Rock Slide
- Superpower
- Icicle Crash / Ice Punch
- Shadow Claw

Doubles Physical Sweeper Beartic (Slush Rush)

Beartic is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Beartic's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Slush Rush, if hail is active Beartic's speed is doubled.

♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to make the foes flinch).
♦ Superpower is a physical 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Beartic's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Icicle Crash is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Ice-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
♦ Ice Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).

Movepool

Wondering what moves can Beartic 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.

Combo List

These are a list of several common move combinations Beartic can perform in Sword/Shield. 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 SS Move and Ability Combos for Beartic

Moves: Endure + Flail
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Rest + Snore
Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Aqua Jet
Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break

Most notable and possible best moves for Beartic

Aqua Jet
Dig
Heavy Slam
Icicle Crash
Liquidation
Low Kick
Play Rough
Protect
Rock Slide
Stone Edge
Superpower
Throat Chop

Common Effort Values for Beartic in Sword and Shield

Jolly Nature ( 4/252/0/0/0/252 )
Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
Optimize Beartic's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield

Competitive Information for Beartic [Sword/Shield]