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Competitive Pokemon Sword/Shield Movesets and Strategies for 000

Base Stats for Urshifu-Gmax

Fighting / Dark

Abilities:

Evolutions / Family:
Urshifu

Weakness Chart for Fighting/Dark-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fairy

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

0.25x

4x

2x

0.5x

Grass

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

0x

0.5x

¼x

½x

2x

4x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Urshifu-gmax? 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.

Urshifu is a notable Fighting and Dark-typed Pokemon. It's a pretty regular sight to see Urshifu out in the 8th generation battlefield. Urshifu is weak to Fairy, Fighting, and Flying-typed attacks.

Species: Urshifu-Gmax
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Band
Ability: Unseen Fist
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 92 SpD / 164 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Drain Punch
- Wicked Blow / Darkest Lariat
- Thunder Punch / Body Slam
- Poison Jab

Physical Sweeper Urshifu-Gmax (Unseen Fist)

Urshifu is an interesting Physical Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Urshifu from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Band will increase the damage of Urshifu's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Unseen Fist, all contact moves hit through protection. Thunder Punch was added to provide additional threat coverage.

♦ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Urshifu's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Drain Punch is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (Urshifu recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Wicked Blow is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (always results in a critical hit).
♦ Darkest Lariat is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Dark-type move (ignores the target's stat stage changes).
♦ Thunder Punch is a physical 75-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Body Slam is a physical 85-base power Normal-type move (30% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Poison Jab is a physical 80-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).

Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Urshifu-gmax? 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.

Species: Urshifu-Gmax
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Band
Ability: Unseen Fist
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 92 SpD / 164 Spe
Moveset:
- Wicked Blow / Darkest Lariat
- Close Combat / Brick Break
- Rock Slide
- Ice Punch / Body Slam

Doubles Physical Sweeper Urshifu-Gmax (Unseen Fist)

Urshifu is a wonderful Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Focus Sash helps protect Urshifu from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Band will increase the damage of Urshifu's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. With Unseen Fist, all contact moves hit through protection. Ice Punch was added to provide additional threat coverage.

♦ Wicked Blow is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dark-type move (always results in a critical hit).
♦ Darkest Lariat is a physical STAB-boosted 85-base power Dark-type move (ignores the target's stat stage changes).
♦ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Urshifu's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Brick Break is a physical STAB-boosted 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to make the foes flinch).
♦ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Body Slam is a physical 85-base power Normal-type move (30% chance to paralyze the target).

Movepool

Wondering what moves can Urshifu-gmax 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.

Combo List

These are a list of several common move combinations Urshifu-gmax 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 Urshifu-gmax

Moves: Endure + Reversal
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
Moves: Substitute + Reversal
Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
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
Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Dynamic Punch
Moves with Priority: Detect, Endure, Protect, Helping Hand, Sucker Punch
Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break

Most notable and possible best moves for Urshifu-gmax

Protect
Rest

Common Effort Values for Urshifu-gmax in Sword and Shield

Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
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Competitive Information for Urshifu (gmax) [Sword/Shield]