Competitive Information for Floette [X/Y]
Fairy
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Floette? 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.
Floette is an outstanding Fairy-typed Pokemon. Floette is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Floette's only type-related weaknesses are Poison and Steel.
Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Flower Veil
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Moonblast / Dazzling Gleam
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Psychic
- Round / Snore
Special Sweeper Floette
Floette is a remarkable Special Sweeper. It's purpose is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Floette's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Floette's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Flower Veil, this side's grass types can't have stats lowered or status inflicted by other pokemon.
♦ Dazzling Gleam is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Fairy-type move (no additional effect. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Petal Dance is a special 120-base power Grass-type move (lasts 2-3 turns. confuses your Floette afterwards).
♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Snore is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (Floette must be asleep. 30% chance to flinch target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Floette? 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 Specs
Ability: Flower Veil
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast
- Petal Dance / Energy Ball
- Psychic
- Round / Snore
Doubles Special Sweeper Floette (Flower Veil)
Floette is an outstanding Special Sweeper. It's designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Floette's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Floette's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Flower Veil, this side's grass types can't have stats lowered or status inflicted by other pokemon.
♦ Moonblast is a special STAB-boosted 95-base power Fairy-type move (30% chance to lower the target's special attack by 1 stage).
♦ Petal Dance is a special 120-base power Grass-type move (lasts 2-3 turns. confuses your Floette afterwards).
♦ Energy Ball is a special 90-base power Grass-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Snore is a special 50-base power Normal-type move (Floette must be asleep. 30% chance to flinch target).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Floette 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 Floette 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 Floette
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Safeguard + Petal dance
- Moves: Grassy terrain + Secret power
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Moves with Priority: Helping Hand, Magic Coat, Protect
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Floette's stats
- Calm Mind
Most notable and possible best moves for Floette
- Protect
- Rest
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Floette in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Floette's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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