Competitive Information for Pyukumuku [Sword/Shield]

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Competitive Pokemon Sword/Shield Movesets and Strategies for Pyukumuku

Base Stats for Pyukumuku

Water

Abilities:

UnawareUnaware: This Pokemon ignores other Pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

Innards OutInnards Out: If this Pokemon is KOed with a move, that move's user loses an equal amount of HP.

Evolutions / Family:
Pyukumuku

Weakness Chart for Water-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fairy

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

0.5x

Grass

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

0.5x

¼x

½x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Pyukumuku? 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.

Common team mates for Pyukumuku in Pokemon Sword/Shield:

CorviknightToxapexClefableSeismitoadJirachiFerrothornGastrodonKommo-oRunerigusQuagsire

Pyukumuku is popular Water-typed Pokemon. Pyukumuku is a pretty standard Pokemon to see in Generation 8. Pyukumuku's only type-related weaknesses are Electric and Grass.

Species: Pyukumuku
Item: Life Orb / Black Belt
Ability: Unaware
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Moveset:
- Counter
- Recover
- Harden
- Toxic

Physical Sweeper Pyukumuku (Unaware)

Pyukumuku is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Pyukumuku's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Unaware, Pyukumuku ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

♦ Counter is a physical 0-base power Fighting-type move (if hit by physical attack, returns double damage).
♦ Recover is a status move (heals your Pyukumuku by 50% of its max hp).
♦ Harden is a status move (raises your Pyukumuku's defense by 1 stage).
♦ Toxic is a status move (badly poisons the target; Note: Poison types can't miss with Toxic).

No additional EV spread were found for this set at this time.Array ( )

Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Pyukumuku? 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.

Common team mates for Pyukumuku in Pokemon Sword/Shield:

CorviknightToxapexClefableSeismitoadJirachiFerrothornGastrodonKommo-oRunerigusQuagsire

Doubles Physical Sweeper Pyukumuku (Unaware)

Pyukumuku is a stupendous Physical Sweeper. It is meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Pyukumuku's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Unaware, Pyukumuku ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

No additional EV spread were found for this set at this time.Array ( )

Movepool

Wondering what moves can Pyukumuku 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.

Category Filter: Filter movelist to show only Physical, Special, or Status moves

Extended Move Details:Additional move information such as Risk versus Reward Statistics or Move power versus specific type-matchups

Damage Modifiers:

Type-matchup: Sort through and determine which moves would best work versus an opponent of the typing you select.

Apply STABS.T.A.B : Same-Type Attack Bonus
These moves are always highlighted below in bold. When this box is checked, the bonus is calculated into the Versus column when a type-matchup is selected.

Note: The damage listed here under Versus is not actually calculated using the in-game damage formula. It is simply calculated using typing weaknesses and resistances from the selected type-matchup modifier along with STAB (if applied) to help sort through and give a general idea as to how powerful certain moves might be towards that selected typing after modifiers are applied. Several moves listed here may have additional effects that might alter actual damage output which are not factored on this specific list. Use damage calculators to find actual damage amounts.

Combo List

These are a list of several common move combinations Pyukumuku 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 Pyukumuku

Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Pain Split + Toxic
Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Helping Hand

Optimize Pyukumuku's EVs for Sword/Shield