Competitive Information for Charizard (mega) [Sword/Shield]
Fire / Flying
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Charizard-mega-y? 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.
Charizard is an awesome Fire and Flying-typed Pokemon. It's a frequent sight to see Charizard out in the 8th generation battlefield. Charizard is weak to Electric, Rock, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 12 Hp / 252 SpA / 244 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Overheat / Weather Ball
- Solar Beam
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Dragon Pulse
Special Sweeper Charizard-Mega-Y (Drought)
Charizard is pretty popular Special Sweeper for single battles. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Drought changes the weather to Intense Sunlight when Charizard is sent out onto the field. This help boosts all fire attacks while the Sunlight remains active. With a Charizardite Y equipped to it, if held by a charizard, this item allows it to mega evolve in battle.
◆ Weather Ball is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (power doubles and type varies in each weather).
◆ Solar Beam is a special 120-base power Grass-type move (charges turn 1. Hits turn 2. No charge in sunlight).
◆ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Dragon Pulse is a special 85-base power Dragon-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Charizard-mega-y? 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: Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 12 Hp / 252 SpA / 244 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Heat Wave / Incinerate
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Solar Beam
- Dragon Pulse / Twister
Doubles Special Sweeper Charizard-Mega-Y (Drought)
Charizard is pretty popular Special Sweeper for double battles. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Drought changes the weather to Intense Sunlight when Charizard is sent out onto the field. This help boosts all fire attacks while the Sunlight remains active. With a Charizardite Y equipped to it, if held by a charizard, this item allows it to mega evolve in battle.
◆ Incinerate is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Fire-type move (destroys the foes berry/gem).
◆ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Solar Beam is a special 120-base power Grass-type move (charges turn 1. Hits turn 2. No charge in sunlight).
◆ Dragon Pulse is a special 85-base power Dragon-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
◆ Twister is a special 40-base power Dragon-type move (20% chance to make the foes flinch).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Charizard-mega-y 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 Charizard-mega-y 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 Charizard-mega-y
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Belly drum + Rest
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Drought + Item: Heat rock
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Dynamic Punch
- Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Inferno
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Helping Hand, Protect, Quick Attack
- Moves that Break Screens: Defog, Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Scorching Sands, Will-O-Wisp, Toxic
Moves that boost Charizard-mega-y's stats
- Ancient Power
- Belly Drum
- Curse
- Defense Curl
- Dragon Dance
- Flame Charge
- Hone Claws
- Howl
- Metal Claw
- Power-Up Punch
- Scale Shot
- Skull Bash
- Steel Wing
- Swords Dance
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Charizard-mega-y
- Blast Burn
- Earthquake
- Howl
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Charizard-mega-y in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Charizard-mega-y's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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