Competitive Information for Buneary [Sword/Shield]
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Buneary? 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.
Buneary is an interesting Normal-typed Pokemon. Buneary is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Buneary can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Buneary's only type-related weakness is Fighting.
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Band
Ability: Limber
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Retaliate / Facade
- Triple Axel / Ice Punch
- Play Rough
- Drain Punch / Low Sweep
Physical Sweeper Buneary (Limber)
Buneary is a fabulous Physical Sweeper for single battles. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Buneary from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Band will increase the damage of Buneary's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Limber, Buneary cannot be paralyzed. Gaining this ability while paralyzed cures it. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction.
◆ Facade is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Buneary is burn/poison/paralyzed).
◆ Triple Axel is a physical 20-base power Ice-type move (hits 3 times. Each hit can miss, but power rises).
◆ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
◆ Play Rough is a physical 90-base power Fairy-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
◆ Drain Punch is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (Buneary recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Low Sweep is a physical 65-base power Fighting-type move (100% chance to lower the target's speed by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Buneary? 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.
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Band
Ability: Limber
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Retaliate / Facade
- Triple Axel / Ice Punch
- Play Rough
- Drain Punch / Low Sweep
Doubles Physical Sweeper Buneary (Limber)
Buneary is a marvelous Physical Sweeper for double battles. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Buneary from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Band will increase the damage of Buneary's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Limber, Buneary cannot be paralyzed. Gaining this ability while paralyzed cures it. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction.
◆ Facade is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Buneary is burn/poison/paralyzed).
◆ Triple Axel is a physical 20-base power Ice-type move (hits 3 times. Each hit can miss, but power rises).
◆ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
◆ Play Rough is a physical 90-base power Fairy-type move (10% chance to lower the target's attack by 1 stage).
◆ Drain Punch is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (Buneary recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
◆ Low Sweep is a physical 65-base power Fighting-type move (100% chance to lower the target's speed by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Buneary 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 Buneary 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 Buneary
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Swagger + Flatter
- Moves: Endure + Flail
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Thunderbolt + Ice beam
- Ability: Klutz + Move: Switcheroo
- Ability: Klutz + Move: Entrainment
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Move: Double Hit + Item: King's Rock
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Helping Hand, Magic Coat, Protect, Baby-Doll Eyes, Fake Out, Quick Attack
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Buneary's stats
- Agility
- Charge Beam
- Cosmic Power
- Defense Curl
- Power-Up Punch
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Buneary
- Baton Pass
- Fake Out
- Ice Beam
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Buneary in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Buneary's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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