Competitive Information for Swoobat [X/Y]
Psychic / Flying
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Swoobat? 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.
Swoobat is a decent Psychic and Flying-typed Pokemon. It's a pretty common sight to see Swoobat out in the 6th generation battlefield. Swoobat is weak to Dark, Electric, Ghost, Ice, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Specs
Ability: Simple
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 108 Hp / 8 Def / 252 SpA / 8 SpD / 132 Spe
Moveset:
- Synchronoise / Psychic
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Heat Wave
Special Sweeper Swoobat (Simple)
Swoobat is a notable Special Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Swoobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Swoobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Simple, when Swoobat'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).
♦ 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 (Swoobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Heat Wave is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the foes).
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Item: Choice Specs
Ability: Unaware
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 6 Hp / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Psyshock / Shadow Ball
- Charge Beam / Signal Beam
- Heat Wave
- Psychic
Swoobat Special Sweeper (Specs Bat)
Swoobat is a fabulous Special Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Swoobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Unaware, Swoobat ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.
♦ 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 Swoobat's special attack by 1 stage).
♦ Signal Beam is a special 75-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to confuse 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).
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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
Swoobat Special Sweeper (Psych Up Bat)
Swoobat is pretty popular Special Sweeper. It is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Life Orb boosts the power of Swoobat's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Unaware, Swoobat ignores other pokemon's stat stages when taking or doing damage.
♦ 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).
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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 / Embargo
Swoobat Special Sweeper (Take The Lead)
Swoobat is a decent Special Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Swoobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Unaware, Swoobat 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).
♦ Tailwind is a status move (for 4 turns, allies' speed is doubled).
♦ Protect is a status move (prevents moves from affecting your Swoobat this turn).
♦ Endeavor is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (lowers the target's hp to your Swoobat'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).
♦ Embargo is a status move (for 5 turns, the target's item has no effect).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Swoobat? 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: Focus Sash / Choice Specs
Ability: Simple
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 108 Hp / 8 Def / 252 SpA / 8 SpD / 132 Spe
Moveset:
- Synchronoise / Psychic
- Air Cutter / Air Slash
- Heat Wave
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
Doubles Special Sweeper Swoobat (Simple)
Swoobat is a wonderful Special Sweeper. It tries to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Swoobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Swoobat's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Simple, when Swoobat'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).
♦ 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).
♦ 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 (Swoobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
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Item: Focus Sash
Ability: Simple
Nature: Quiet (+SpA, -Spe)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 252 Hp / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Moveset:
- Substitute
- Giga Drain
- Synchronoise / Psychic
- Trick Room
Defensive Trick Room Swoobat (Simple)
Swoobat is a spectacular Defensive Trick Room. Focus Sash helps protect Swoobat from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. With Simple, when Swoobat's stat stages are raised or lowered the effect is doubled instead.
♦ Giga Drain is a special 75-base power Grass-type move (Swoobat recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Synchronoise is a special STAB-boosted 120-base power Psychic-type move (hits adjacent pokemon sharing your Swoobat's type).
♦ Psychic is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Trick Room is a status move (goes last. for 5 turns, turn order is reversed).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Swoobat learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
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Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Swoobat 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 Swoobat
- Moves: Swagger + Flatter
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Flatter + Psych up
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Stored power + Psych up
- Ability: Klutz + Move: Trick
- Ability: Klutz + Move: Skill swap
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- 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: Protect, Magic Coat, Helping Hand
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Swoobat's stats
- Amnesia
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Steel Wing
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Swoobat
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Roost
- Stored Power
- Taunt
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Swoobat in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Swoobat's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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