Competitive Information for Trevenant [Sword/Shield]
Ghost / Grass
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Trevenant? 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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Trevenant is a decent Ghost and Grass-typed Pokemon. It's super common to find yourself dealing with Trevenant when battling in the 8th generation meta. Trevenant is weak to Dark, Fire, Flying, Ghost, and Ice-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Mental Herb
Ability: Frisk
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Wood Hammer / Horn Leech
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Ally Switch
- Trick Room
Physical Sweeper Trevenant (Popular/Trending)
Trevenant is a marvelous Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Trevenant from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Frisk, on switch-in Trevenant identifies the held items of all opposing pokemon.
♦ Horn Leech is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Trevenant recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Bulldoze is a physical 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Ally Switch is a status move (your Trevenant swaps positions with its ally).
♦ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. for 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
Item: Iapapa Berry / Liechi Berry
Ability: Harvest
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Wood Hammer / Seed Bomb
- Poltergeist / Shadow Claw
- Earthquake
- X-Scissor
Physical Sweeper Trevenant (Harvest)
Trevenant is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. With Harvest, if last item used is a berry 50% chance to restore it each end of turn. 100% in sun.
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
♦ Poltergeist is a physical STAB-boosted 110-base power Ghost-type move (fails if the target has no held item).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a decent amount of damage.
Item: Sitrus Berry
Ability: Harvest
Nature: Calm (+SpD, -Atk)
EVs: 252 Hp / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Moveset:
- Protect / Shadow Claw
- Curse
- Substitute
- Leech Seed
Trevenant Special Wall (The Giving Tree)
Trevenant is a stupendous Special Wall. It is meant to take a great amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. With Harvest, if last item used is a berry 50% chance to restore it each end of turn. 100% in sun. CURSE activates the Berry. Substitute first, then seed up, activate the Sitrus Berry, Curse, then just stall.
Only Curse when you have Harvested a Berry and you have seeded.
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Curse is a status move (curses if ghost, else -1 spe, +1 atk, +1 def).
♦ Substitute is a status move (Trevenant takes 1/4 its max hp to put in a substitute).
♦ Leech Seed is a status move (1/8 of target's hp is restored to Trevenant every turn).
Item: Starf Berry
Ability: Harvest
Nature: Careful (+SpD, -SpA)
EVs: 244 Hp / 12 Atk / 252 SpD
Moveset:
- Phantom Force
- Protect
- Curse
- Substitute
Trevenant Special Wall (Stallvenant Curse)
Trevenant is a remarkable Special Wall. It's primary goal is to take a great amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. With Harvest, if last item used is a berry 50% chance to restore it each end of turn. 100% in sun. Essentially the old tropius starf berry tactic, but way better.
You try to switch into something that is either sleeping, or doesn't have any dangerous attacks, and use substitute. Afterwards you use curse, and your Starf berry will activate. Then protect + phantom force to stall, and hope you get the right boosts.
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Trevenant this turn).
♦ Curse is a status move (curses if ghost, else -1 spe, +1 atk, +1 def).
♦ Substitute is a status move (Trevenant takes 1/4 its max hp to put in a substitute).
Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Trevenant? 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: Iapapa Berry / Liechi Berry
Ability: Harvest
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Wood Hammer / Seed Bomb
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Poltergeist / Shadow Claw
- Rock Slide
Doubles Physical Sweeper Trevenant (Harvest)
Trevenant is a decent Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. With Harvest, if last item used is a berry 50% chance to restore it each end of turn. 100% in sun.
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a substantial amount of damage.
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Bulldoze is a physical 60-base power Ground-type move (100% chance lower adjacent pkmn speed by 1 stage).
♦ Poltergeist is a physical STAB-boosted 110-base power Ghost-type move (fails if the target has no held item).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
Item: Iapapa Berry / Lum Berry
Ability: Harvest
Nature: Brave (+Atk, -Spe)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Moveset:
- Wood Hammer / Seed Bomb
- Poltergeist / Shadow Claw
- Earthquake
- Trick Room
Offensive Trick Room Trevenant (Harvest)
Trevenant is pretty popular Offensive Trick Room. With Harvest, if last item used is a berry 50% chance to restore it each end of turn. 100% in sun.
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a great amount of damage.
♦ Poltergeist is a physical STAB-boosted 110-base power Ghost-type move (fails if the target has no held item).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Earthquake is a physical 100-base power Ground-type move (hits adjacent pokemon).
♦ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. for 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
Movepool
Wondering what moves can Trevenant learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
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Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Trevenant 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 Trevenant
- Moves: Sunny Day + Solar Beam
- Moves: Sunny Day + Growth
- Moves: Swagger + Foul play
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Substitute + Leech Seed
- Moves: Ingrain + Leech Seed
- Moves: Toxic + Leech Seed
- Moves: Pain Split + Toxic
- Moves: Pain Split + Will-O-Wisp
- Ability: Harvest + Item: Sitrus Berry
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Magic Coat, Sucker Punch, Ally Switch
Most notable and possible best moves for Trevenant
- Ally Switch
- Bulldoze
- Earthquake
- Forest's Curse
- Horn Leech
- Trick Room
- Will-O-Wisp
- Wood Hammer
Common Effort Values for Trevenant in Sword and Shield
- Jolly Nature ( 4/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Sassy Nature ( 252/0/4/0/252/0 )
- Optimize Trevenant's EV spread for Pokemon Sword and Shield
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