Competitive Information for Inteleon [Sword/Shield]
Water
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Inteleon? 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.
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Inteleon is an interesting Water-typed Pokemon. It's not-uncommon to see Inteleon show up as a Sword/Shield opponent. This Pokemon deserves to see more play in the meta. Inteleon's only type-related weaknesses are Electric and Grass.
Item: Focus Sash / Bright Powder
Ability: Torrent
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Snipe Shot / Water Pledge
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Protect
- Soak
Special Sweeper Inteleon (Popular/Trending)
Inteleon is a marvelous Special Sweeper for single battles. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Inteleon from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Torrent, at 1/3 or less of its max hp Inteleon's attacking stat is 1.5x with water attacks. With a Bright Powder equipped to it, the accuracy of attacks against Inteleon is 0.9x.
◆ Water Pledge is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (use with grass or fire pledge for added effect).
◆ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
◆ Ice Beam is a special 90-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
◆ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Inteleon this turn).
◆ Soak is a status move (changes the target's type to water).
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Item: Scope Lens / Focus Sash
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 172 Hp / 252 SpA / 84 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Snipe Shot / Surf
- Ice Beam
- Shadow Ball
- Dark Pulse
Special Sweeper Inteleon (Sniper)
Inteleon is a wonderful Special Sweeper for single battles. This moveset attempts to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Inteleon critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Inteleon's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Inteleon from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sniper, if Inteleon strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5.
◆ Surf is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Water-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. Double damage on dive).
◆ Ice Beam is a special 90-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
◆ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Dark Pulse is a special 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Inteleon? 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.
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Item: Scope Lens / Focus Sash
Ability: Sniper
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 172 Hp / 252 SpA / 84 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Snipe Shot / Surf
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Shadow Ball
- Dark Pulse
Doubles Special Sweeper Inteleon (Sniper)
Inteleon is an extraordinary Special Sweeper for double battles. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Scope Lens/Razor Claw increases Inteleon critical hit ratio by 1 stage and combined with Inteleon's Sniper ability will increase the amount of damage done by those critial hits. Focus Sash helps protect Inteleon from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Sniper, if Inteleon strikes with a critical hit the damage is multiplied by 1.5.
◆ Surf is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Water-type move (hits adjacent pokemon. Double damage on dive).
◆ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
◆ Ice Beam is a special 90-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
◆ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
◆ Dark Pulse is a special 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to make the target flinch).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Inteleon 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 Inteleon 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 Inteleon
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Sniper + Item: Scope lens
- 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
- Ability: Sniper + High Crit Move: Snipe Shot
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Sucker Punch, Aqua Jet, Ice Shard
- Moves that inflict status: Scald
Moves that boost Inteleon's stats
- Agility
- Fell Stinger
- Scale Shot
- Swords Dance
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Inteleon
- Air Slash
- Aqua Jet
- Baton Pass
- Dark Pulse
- Hydro Cannon
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Ice Shard
- Icy Wind
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Scald
- Snipe Shot
- Soak
- Substitute
- Surf
- U-turn
- Water Pledge
Common Effort Values for Inteleon in Sword and Shield
- Timid Nature ( 4/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Timid Nature ( 0/0/0/252/4/252 )
- Optimize Inteleon's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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