Competitive Information for Naganadel [Sword/Shield]
Poison / Dragon
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Naganadel? 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.
RillaboomRegielekiUrshifuLandorus-TherianGlastrierDracovishTapu FiniTyranitarKartanaCelesteela
Naganadel is a stupendous Poison and Dragon-typed Pokemon. It's not-uncommon to find yourself dealing with Naganadel when battling in the 8th generation meta. Naganadel is considered strong enough to compete with Uber tiered Pokemon. Naganadel is weak to Dragon, Ground, Ice, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Poison Barb
Ability: Beast Boost
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Flamethrower / Heat Wave
- Sludge Bomb / Sludge Wave
- Air Slash
- Protect
Special Sweeper Naganadel (Popular/Trending)
Naganadel is an interesting Special Sweeper for single battles. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Life Orb boosts the power of Naganadel's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Beast Boost, Naganadel's highest stat is raised by 1 if it attacks and koes another pokemon. With a Poison Barb equipped to it, Naganadel's poison-type attacks have 1.2x power.
◆ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
◆ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
◆ Sludge Wave is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Poison-type move (10% chance to poison adjacent pokemon).
◆ Air Slash is a special 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Naganadel this turn).
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Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 180 Hp / 252 SpA / 76 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Sludge Wave / Sludge Bomb
- Dragon Pulse
- Thunderbolt
- Flamethrower / Heat Wave
Special Sweeper Naganadel (Beast Boost)
Naganadel is popular Special Sweeper for single battles. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Naganadel's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Naganadel's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Beast Boost, Naganadel's highest stat is raised by 1 if it attacks and koes another pokemon.
◆ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
◆ Dragon Pulse is a special STAB-boosted 85-base power Dragon-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
◆ Thunderbolt is a special 90-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
◆ Flamethrower is a special 90-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
◆ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Naganadel? 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.
RillaboomRegielekiUrshifuLandorus-TherianGlastrierDracovishTapu FiniTyranitarKartanaCelesteela
Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 180 Hp / 252 SpA / 76 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Moveset:
- Sludge Wave / Sludge Bomb
- Heat Wave / Flamethrower
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Dragon Pulse
Doubles Special Sweeper Naganadel (Beast Boost)
Naganadel is a notable Special Sweeper for double battles. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Naganadel's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Naganadel's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Beast Boost, Naganadel's highest stat is raised by 1 if it attacks and koes another pokemon.
◆ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
◆ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
◆ Flamethrower is a special 90-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
◆ Air Cutter is a special 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. Hits adjacent foes).
◆ Air Slash is a special 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to make the target flinch).
◆ Dragon Pulse is a special STAB-boosted 85-base power Dragon-type move that deals a decent amount of damage.
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Naganadel 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 Naganadel 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 Naganadel
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Helping Hand, Ally Switch
- Moves that inflict status (and combo with the move Hex): Toxic
Moves that boost Naganadel's stats
- Dragon Dance
- Fell Stinger
- Nasty Plot
- Scale Shot
Most notable and possible best moves for Naganadel
- Air Slash
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Flamethrower
- Heat Wave
- Hex
- Protect
- Rest
- Sludge Bomb
- Sludge Wave
- Snarl
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Naganadel in Sword and Shield
- Timid Nature ( 4/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Timid Nature ( 0/0/0/252/4/252 )
- Optimize Naganadel's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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