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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 an astounding Fighting and Dark-typed Pokemon. It's not-uncommon to find yourself dealing with Urshifu when battling in the 8th generation meta. 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:
- Wicked Blow / Darkest Lariat
- Superpower / Close Combat
- Thunder Punch / Ice Punch
- Poison Jab

Physical Sweeper Urshifu-Gmax (Unseen Fist)

Urshifu is a spectacular Physical Sweeper. This moveset is designed 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 or Ice Punch are 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).
♦ Superpower is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Urshifu's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Close Combat is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Urshifu's defense and special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Thunder Punch is a physical 75-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
♦ Ice Punch is a physical 75-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze 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 / Superpower
- Rock Slide
- Thunder Punch / Body Slam

Doubles Physical Sweeper Urshifu-Gmax (Unseen Fist)

Urshifu is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's meant 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.

♦ 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).
♦ Superpower is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Fighting-type move (lowers your Urshifu's attack and defense by 1 stage).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ 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).

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
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

Optimize Urshifu-gmax's EVs for Sword/Shield

Competitive Information for Urshifu (gmax) [Sword/Shield]