Competitive Information for Happiny [Sword/Shield]
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Happiny? 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.
Happiny is an extraordinary Normal-typed Pokemon. Happiny is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Happiny can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Happiny's only type-related weakness is Fighting.
Item: Throat Spray / Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Def / 252 SpA
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Hyper Voice / Round
- Flamethrower / Incinerate
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
Special Sweeper Happiny (Natural Cure)
Happiny is a notable Special Sweeper for single battles. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Throat Spray activates when a Pokemon uses a sound-based move (in this case Hyper Voice or Round) and increases Happiny's special attack stat by 2 stages. Life Orb boosts the power of Happiny's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Natural Cure, Happiny has its non-volatile status condition cured when it switches out.
◆ Round is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
◆ Flamethrower is a special 90-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
◆ Incinerate is a special 60-base power Fire-type move (destroys the foes berry/gem).
◆ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Happiny? 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: Throat Spray / Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Def / 252 SpA
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Hyper Voice / Round
- Incinerate / Flamethrower
- Icy Wind
- Psychic
Doubles Special Sweeper Happiny (Natural Cure)
Happiny is popular Special Sweeper for double battles. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Throat Spray activates when a Pokemon uses a sound-based move (in this case Hyper Voice or Round) and increases Happiny's special attack stat by 2 stages. Life Orb boosts the power of Happiny's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Natural Cure, Happiny has its non-volatile status condition cured when it switches out.
◆ Round is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
◆ Incinerate is a special 60-base power Fire-type move (destroys the foes berry/gem).
◆ Flamethrower is a special 90-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
◆ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
◆ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Happiny 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 Happiny 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 Happiny
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Stored power + Psych up
- Ability: Serene grace + Item: King's rock
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Icy Wind
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Flamethrower
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fling
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Headbutt
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Mud-Slap
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Psychic
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Shadow Ball
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Water Pulse
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Fire Blast
- Ability: Serene Grace + Additional Effect Move: Zen Headbutt
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Helping Hand, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Happiny's stats
- Defense Curl
- Work Up
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Happiny
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Stored Power
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Happiny in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Happiny's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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