Competitive Information for Kleavor [Sword/Shield]
Bug / Rock
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Kleavor? 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.
Kleavor is popular Bug and Rock-typed Pokemon. It's a almost common sight to see Kleavor out in the 8th generation battlefield. Kleavor is weak to Rock, Steel, and Water-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
Ability: Sheer Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Slash
- X-Scissor / U-turn
- Knock Off / Night Slash
- Cross Poison
Physical Sweeper Kleavor (Sheer Force)
Kleavor is a decent Physical Sweeper for single battles. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Kleavor from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Kleavor's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. However, Sheer Force negates the recoil damage from Life Orb while still increasing the damage from both it's ability and the orb making it an amazing item for Kleavor. With Sheer Force, Kleavor's attacks with secondary effects have 1.3x power; nullifies the effects.
◆ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
◆ U-turn is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Bug-type move (Kleavor switches out after damaging the target).
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Cross Poison is a physical 70-base power Poison-type move (high critical hit ratio. 10% chance to poison).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Kleavor? 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: Life Orb / Focus Sash
Ability: Sheer Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Double-Edge / Slash
- X-Scissor / U-turn
- Knock Off / Night Slash
- Psycho Cut
Doubles Physical Sweeper Kleavor (Sheer Force)
Kleavor is a sensational Physical Sweeper for double battles. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Kleavor from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Kleavor's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. However, Sheer Force negates the recoil damage from Life Orb while still increasing the damage from both it's ability and the orb making it an amazing item for Kleavor. With Sheer Force, Kleavor's attacks with secondary effects have 1.3x power; nullifies the effects.
◆ Slash is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ X-Scissor is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
◆ U-turn is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Bug-type move (Kleavor switches out after damaging the target).
◆ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
◆ Night Slash is a physical 70-base power Dark-type move (high critical hit ratio).
◆ Psycho Cut is a physical 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Kleavor 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 Kleavor 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 Kleavor
- Moves: Endure + Reversal
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Reversal
- Ability: Sheer force + Item: Life orb
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Double Hit + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Bug Buzz
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Cross Poison
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Headbutt
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Smash
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Struggle Bug
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Steel Wing
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Air Slash
- Moves with Priority: Detect, Endure, Protect, Quick Guard, Feint, Quick Attack, Vacuum Wave
- Moves that Break Screens: Defog, Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Kleavor's stats
- Agility
- Curse
- Skull Bash
- Steel Wing
- Swords Dance
Most notable and possible best moves for Kleavor
- Baton Pass
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Kleavor in Sword and Shield
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Kleavor's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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