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Competitive Pokemon Sword/Shield Movesets and Strategies for Woobat

Base Stats for Woobat

Psychic / Flying

Abilities:
,
,

Evolutions / Family:
Woobat
Swoobat

Weakness Chart for Psychic/Flying-type:

Bug

Dark

Dragon

Electric

Fairy

Fighting

Fire

Flying

Ghost

2x

0.25x

2x

Grass

Ground

Ice

Normal

Poison

Psychic

Rock

Steel

Water

0.5x

0x

2x

0.5x

2x

¼x

½x

2x

4x

Movesets for Singles

What is a good competitive moveset for Woobat? 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.

Woobat is a marvelous Psychic and Flying-typed Pokemon. Woobat is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Woobat is weak to Dark, Electric, Ghost, Ice, and Rock-typed attacks.

Species: Woobat
Item: Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Simple
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psycho Cut / Zen Headbutt
- Dual Wingbeat / Pluck
- Knock Off / Thief
- Facade / Super Fang

Physical Sweeper Woobat (Simple)

Woobat is pretty popular Physical Sweeper. It's meant to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Woobat's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Woobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Simple, when Woobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction.

♦ Psycho Cut is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Dual Wingbeat is a physical STAB-boosted 40-base power Flying-type move (hits 2 times in one turn).
♦ Pluck is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (Woobat steals and eats the target's berry).
♦ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
♦ Thief is a physical 60-base power Dark-type move (if your Woobat has no item, it steals the target's).
♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Woobat is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Super Fang is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (does damage equal to 1/2 target's current hp).

Species: Woobat
Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Simple
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psychic / Expanding Force
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Heat Wave

Special Sweeper Woobat (Simple)

Woobat is a spectacular Special Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Woobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Woobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Simple, when Woobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead.

♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Expanding Force is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (Woobat on psychic terrain: 1.5x power, hits foes).
♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Giga Drain is a special 75-base power Grass-type move (Woobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).

Species: Woobat
Item: Choice Specs
Ability: Unaware
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 6 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psyshock / Shadow Ball
- Charge Beam
- Heat Wave
- Psychic

Woobat Special Sweeper (Specs Bat)

Woobat is a marvelous Special Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Woobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Unaware, Woobat ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

♦ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Charge Beam is a special 50-base power Electric-type move (70% chance to raise your Woobat's special attack by 1 stage).
♦ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).

Species: Woobat
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Unaware
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 6 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Energy Ball
- Air Slash
- Psych Up / Light Screen
- Swagger

Woobat Special Sweeper (Psych Up Bat)

Woobat is a notable Special Sweeper. It tries to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Life Orb boosts the power of Woobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Unaware, Woobat ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Psych Up is a status move (copies the target's current stat stages).
♦ Light Screen is a status move (for 5 turns, special damage to allies is halved).
♦ Swagger is a status move (raises the target's attack by 2 stages and confuses it).

Species: Woobat
Item: Focus Sash
Ability: Unaware
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 6 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psyshock / Energy Ball
- Tailwind / Protect
- Endeavor / Charm
- Toxic

Woobat Special Sweeper (Take The Lead)

Woobat is a pretty decent Special Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Woobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Unaware, Woobat ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.

♦ Psyshock is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Tailwind is a status move (for 4 turns, allies' speed is doubled).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Woobat this turn).
♦ Endeavor is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (lowers the target's hp to your Woobat's hp).
♦ Charm is a status move (lowers the target's attack by 2 stages).
♦ Toxic is a status move (badly poisons the target; Note: Poison types can't miss with Toxic).

Movesets for Doubles

What is a good doubles moveset for Woobat? 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: Woobat
Item: Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Simple
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psycho Cut / Zen Headbutt
- Dual Wingbeat / Pluck
- Knock Off / Thief
- Facade / Super Fang

Doubles Physical Sweeper Woobat (Simple)

Woobat is a remarkable Physical Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Woobat's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Woobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Simple, when Woobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead. Facade's damage doubles when the user has a status affliction.

♦ Psycho Cut is a physical STAB-boosted 70-base power Psychic-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Dual Wingbeat is a physical STAB-boosted 40-base power Flying-type move (hits 2 times in one turn).
♦ Pluck is a physical STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (Woobat steals and eats the target's berry).
♦ Knock Off is a physical 65-base power Dark-type move (1.5x damage if foe holds an item; Note: This will also remove that item).
♦ Thief is a physical 60-base power Dark-type move (if your Woobat has no item, it steals the target's).
♦ Facade is a physical 70-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if Woobat is burn/poison/paralyzed).
♦ Super Fang is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (does damage equal to 1/2 target's current hp).

Species: Woobat
Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Simple
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Heat Wave
- Psychic / Expanding Force
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain

Doubles Special Sweeper Woobat (Simple)

Woobat is a notable Special Sweeper. The purpose of this moveset is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Woobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Woobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Simple, when Woobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead.

♦ Air Cutter is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Air Slash is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Flying-type move (30% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Expanding Force is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (Woobat on psychic terrain: 1.5x power, hits foes).
♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Giga Drain is a special 75-base power Grass-type move (Woobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).

Species: Woobat
Item: Focus Sash
Ability: Simple
Nature: Docile
EVs: 212 Hp / 148 Def / 148 SpD
Moveset:
- Substitute
- Giga Drain
- Psychic / Expanding Force
- Trick Room

Defensive Trick Room Woobat (Simple)

Woobat is an awesome Defensive Trick Room. Focus Sash helps protect Woobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Simple, when Woobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead.

♦ Substitute is a status move (Woobat takes 1/4 its max hp to put in a substitute).
♦ Giga Drain is a special 75-base power Grass-type move (Woobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Expanding Force is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Psychic-type move (Woobat on psychic terrain: 1.5x power, hits foes).
♦ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. for 5 turns, turn order is reversed).

Movepool

Wondering what moves can Woobat 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 Woobat 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 Woobat

Moves: Swagger + Flatter
Moves: Endure + Endeavor
Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
Moves: Stored Power + Psych Up
Ability: Klutz + Move: Trick
Ability: Klutz + Move: Skill swap
Move: Assurance + Item: Rocky Helmet
Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Magic Coat, Helping Hand, Ally Switch

Optimize Woobat's EVs for Sword/Shield

Competitive Information for Woobat [Sword/Shield]