Competitive Information for Keldeo [X/Y]
Water / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Keldeo? 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.
Keldeo is a decent Water and Fighting-typed Pokemon. It's common to see Keldeo show up as a X/Y opponent. Keldeo can usually be found in the OU tier (Overused). Keldeo is weak to Electric, Fairy, Flying, Grass, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
Ability: Justified
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 76 Hp / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Surf / Scald
- Secret Sword
- Hyper Beam / Round
- Icy Wind
Special Sweeper Keldeo (Justified)
Keldeo is a legendary Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Keldeo's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Keldeo's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Keldeo's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move.
♦ Scald is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (30% chance to burn the target. thaws target).
♦ Secret Sword is a special STAB-boosted 85-base power Fighting-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Keldeo cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Keldeo? 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: Justified
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 76 Hp / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Surf / Scald
- Secret Sword
- Icy Wind
- Hyper Beam / Round
Doubles Special Sweeper Keldeo (Justified)
Keldeo is a legendary Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Keldeo's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. Life Orb boosts the power of Keldeo's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Keldeo's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move.
♦ Scald is a special STAB-boosted 80-base power Water-type move (30% chance to burn the target. thaws target).
♦ Secret Sword is a special STAB-boosted 85-base power Fighting-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
♦ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Keldeo cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Keldeo 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 Keldeo 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 Keldeo
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- 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: Protect, Helping Hand, Aqua Jet, Quick Guard
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic, Scald
Moves that boost Keldeo's stats
- Calm Mind
- Swords Dance
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Keldeo
- Hydro Pump
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Scald
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Keldeo in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Keldeo's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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