Competitive Information for Venomoth [X/Y]
Bug / Poison
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Venomoth? 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.
Venomoth is an outstanding Bug and Poison-typed Pokemon. Venomoth are common Pokemon to see in the XY metagame. Venomoth is weak to Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock-typed attacks.
Item: Focus Sash / Choice Specs
Ability: Shield Dust
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Hp / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Bug Buzz / Signal Beam
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Psychic / Psybeam
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
Special Sweeper Venomoth (Shield Dust)
Venomoth is a pretty decent Special Sweeper. It's goal is to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Venomoth from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Venomoth's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Shield Dust, Venomoth is not affected by the secondary effect of another pokemon's attack.
♦ Signal Beam is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to confuse the target).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psybeam is a special 65-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to confuse 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 (Venomoth recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
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Item: Black Sludge
Ability: Wonder Skin
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 248 Hp / 8 Def / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Quiver Dance
- Bug Buzz
- Baton Pass
- Sleep Powder
Venomoth Support (Quiverpasser)
Venomoth is a stupendous Support. With Wonder Skin, status moves with accuracy checks are 50% accurate when used on Venomoth.
♦ Bug Buzz is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Baton Pass is a status move (Venomoth switches, passing stat changes and more).
♦ Sleep Powder is a status move (causes the target to fall asleep).
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Item: Black Sludge
Ability: Wonder Skin
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA / 212 SpD / 44 Spe
Moveset:
- Infestation
- Quiver Dance
- Silver Wind
- Sludge Bomb
Venomoth Special Tank (Mothman Cometh)
Venomoth is an awesome Special Tank. This moveset attempts to take a substantial amount of hits from special attacks while dealing some decent damage. With Wonder Skin, status moves with accuracy checks are 50% accurate when used on Venomoth.
♦ Quiver Dance is a status move (raises your Venomoth's special attack, special defense, speed by 1 stage).
♦ Silver Wind is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to raise all stats by 1 stage (not acc/eva)).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Venomoth? 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: Shield Dust
Nature: Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 36 Hp / 252 SpA / 220 Spe
Moveset:
- Struggle Bug / Bug Buzz
- Air Cutter
- Sludge Bomb / Venoshock
- Psychic
Doubles Special Sweeper Venomoth (Shield Dust)
Venomoth is a phenomenal Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Focus Sash helps protect Venomoth from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Choice Specs will increase the damage of Venomoth's special moves by 1.5x but will lock you into the first move you pick. With Shield Dust, Venomoth is not affected by the secondary effect of another pokemon's attack.
♦ Bug Buzz is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Bug-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Air Cutter is a special 60-base power Flying-type move (high critical hit ratio. hits adjacent foes).
♦ Sludge Bomb is a special STAB-boosted 90-base power Poison-type move (30% chance to poison the target).
♦ Venoshock is a special STAB-boosted 65-base power Poison-type move (power doubles if the target is poisoned).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Venomoth 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 Venomoth 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 Venomoth
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Swagger + Screech
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Red Card
- Move: Acrobatics + Item: Flying Gem
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Rage Powder
- Moves that Break Screens: Defog
- Moves that inflict status: Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Toxic
Moves that boost Venomoth's stats
- Agility
- Ominous Wind
- Quiver Dance
- Silver Wind
Most notable and possible best moves for Venomoth
- Baton Pass
- Protect
- Rest
- Roost
- Toxic
- U-turn
Common Effort Values for Venomoth in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Venomoth's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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