Competitive Information for Bagon [X/Y]
Dragon
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Bagon? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in X/Y 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 X/Y generation metagame.
Bagon is a phenomenal Dragon-typed Pokemon. Bagon is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Bagon can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Bagon is weak to Dragon, Fairy, and Ice-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Sheer Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 100 Hp / 252 Atk / 156 SpD
Moveset:
- Outrage / Dragon Claw
- Brick Break / Rock Slide
- Shadow Claw
- Crunch
Physical Sweeper Bagon (Sheer Force)
Bagon is an extraordinary Physical Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Bagon's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Bagon's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. However, Sheer Force negates the recoil damage from Life Orb while still increasing the damage from both it's ability and the orb making it an amazing item for Bagon. With Sheer Force, Bagon's attacks with secondary effects have 1.3x power; nullifies the effects. Brick Break or Rock Slide are added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Dragon Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dragon-type move that deals a nice amount of damage.
♦ Brick Break is a physical 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 flinch the foes).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Crunch is a physical 80-base power Dark-type move (20% chance to lower the target's defense by 1 stage).
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Item: Eviolite
Ability: Rock Head
Nature: Relaxed (+Def, -Spe)
EVs: 125 Hp / 241 Atk / 72 Def / 72 SpD
Moveset:
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Rock Slide
- Roar
Bagon Physical Tank (Defense)
Bagon is popular Physical Tank. It is meant to take a large amount of physical hits while dealing some decent damage. Bagon is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield without an Eviolite attached to it. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. With Rock Head, Bagon does not take recoil damage besides struggle/life orb/crash damage.
♦ Outrage is a physical STAB-boosted 120-base power Dragon-type move (lasts 2-3 turns. confuses your Bagon afterwards).
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Roar is a status move (forces the target to switch to a random ally).
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Item: Eviolite
Ability: Rock Head
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Slide
- Fire Blast
- Toxic
Bagon Physical Sweeper (Sandwich Please.)
Bagon is a phenomenal Physical Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Bagon is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield without an Eviolite attached to it. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. With Rock Head, Bagon does not take recoil damage besides struggle/life orb/crash damage.
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Fire Blast is a special 110-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Toxic is a status move (badly poisons the target; Note: Poison types can't miss with Toxic).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Bagon? These builds have been optimized for X/Y 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 X/Y generation metagame.
Item: Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Sheer Force
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 100 Hp / 252 Atk / 156 SpD
Moveset:
- Outrage / Dragon Claw
- Rock Slide
- Brick Break / Double-Edge
- Shadow Claw
Doubles Physical Sweeper Bagon (Sheer Force)
Bagon is a decent Physical Sweeper. This moveset attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Choice Band will increase the damage of Bagon's physical moves by 1.5x at the cost of locking you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Bagon's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. However, Sheer Force negates the recoil damage from Life Orb while still increasing the damage from both it's ability and the orb making it an amazing item for Bagon. With Sheer Force, Bagon's attacks with secondary effects have 1.3x power; nullifies the effects. Brick Break was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Dragon Claw is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Dragon-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
♦ Rock Slide is a physical 75-base power Rock-type move (30% chance to flinch the foes).
♦ Brick Break is a physical 75-base power Fighting-type move (destroys screens, unless the target is immune).
♦ Double-Edge is a physical 120-base power Normal-type move (has 33% recoil).
♦ Shadow Claw is a physical 70-base power Ghost-type move (high critical hit ratio).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Bagon 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.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Bagon can perform in X/Y. 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 XY Move and Ability Combos for Bagon
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Ability: Sheer force + Item: Life orb
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Bite
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Body Slam
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Crunch
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Dragon Breath
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Ember
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Flamethrower
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Headbutt
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Mud-Slap
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Smash
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Secret Power
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Snore
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Twister
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Tomb
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Dragon Rush
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Fire Blast
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Rock Slide
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Zen Headbutt
- Ability: Sheer Force + Additional Effect Move: Fire Fang
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Bagon's stats
- Defense Curl
- Dragon Dance
- Hone Claws
- Iron Defense
- Rage
Most notable and possible best moves for Bagon
- Hydro Pump
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Bagon in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Bagon's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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