Competitive Information for Virizion [X/Y]
Grass / Fighting
Abilities:
Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Virizion? 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.
Virizion is a pretty decent Grass and Fighting-typed Pokemon. It's usual to see Virizion show up as a X/Y opponent. Virizion is weak to Fairy, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison, and Psychic-typed attacks.
Item: Coba Berry / Life Orb
Ability: Justified
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 20 Hp / 252 Atk / 56 Def / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Sacred Sword
- Leaf Blade / Seed Bomb
- Zen Headbutt / Return
- X-Scissor
Physical Sweeper Virizion (Justified)
Virizion is a legendary Physical Sweeper. It's primary goal is to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Virizion's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Virizion's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move. Zen Headbutt was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Sacred Sword is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Fighting-type move (ignores the target's stat stage changes).
♦ Leaf Blade is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Grass-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a mighty amount of damage.
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a good amount of damage.
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Item: Coba Berry / Life Orb
Ability: Justified
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 20 Hp / 56 Def / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Hyper Beam / Round
- Synthesis
- Toxic
Special Sweeper Virizion (Justified)
Virizion is a legendary Special Sweeper. It tries to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Life Orb boosts the power of Virizion's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Virizion's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move.
♦ Giga Drain is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Virizion recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Virizion cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Synthesis is a status move (heals your Virizion by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ 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 Virizion? 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: Coba Berry / Life Orb
Ability: Justified
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
EVs: 20 Hp / 252 Atk / 56 Def / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Close Combat / Sacred Sword
- Leaf Blade / Seed Bomb
- Zen Headbutt / Return
- X-Scissor
Doubles Physical Sweeper Virizion (Justified)
Virizion is a legendary Physical Sweeper. It attempts to take down the opponent's team with brute physical power. Life Orb boosts the power of Virizion's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Virizion's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move. Zen Headbutt was added to provide additional threat coverage.
♦ Sacred Sword is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Fighting-type move (ignores the target's stat stage changes).
♦ Leaf Blade is a physical STAB-boosted 90-base power Grass-type move (high critical hit ratio).
♦ Seed Bomb is a physical STAB-boosted 80-base power Grass-type move that deals a decent amount of damage.
♦ Zen Headbutt is a physical 80-base power Psychic-type move (20% chance to flinch the target).
♦ Return is a physical 0-base power Normal-type move (max 102 power at maximum happiness).
♦ X-Scissor is a physical 80-base power Bug-type move that deals a large amount of damage.
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Item: Coba Berry / Life Orb
Ability: Justified
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 20 Hp / 56 Def / 252 SpA / 180 Spe
Moveset:
- Energy Ball / Giga Drain
- Hyper Beam / Round
- Synthesis
- Toxic
Doubles Special Sweeper Virizion (Justified)
Virizion is a legendary Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Life Orb boosts the power of Virizion's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Justified, Virizion's attack is raised by 1 stage after it is damaged by a dark-type move.
♦ Giga Drain is a special STAB-boosted 75-base power Grass-type move (Virizion recovers 50% of the damage dealt).
♦ Hyper Beam is a special 150-base power Normal-type move (Virizion cannot move next turn).
♦ Round is a special 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Synthesis is a status move (heals your Virizion by a weather-dependent amount).
♦ Toxic is a status move (badly poisons the target; Note: Poison types can't miss with Toxic).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Virizion 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 Virizion 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 Virizion
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- 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
- Moves with Priority: Quick Attack, Protect, Helping Hand, Quick Guard
- Moves that inflict status: Toxic
Moves that boost Virizion's stats
- Calm Mind
- Swords Dance
- Work Up
Most notable and possible best moves for Virizion
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Taunt
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Virizion in X and Y
- Adamant Nature ( 0/252/0/0/0/252 )
- Modest Nature ( 0/0/0/252/0/252 )
- Optimize Virizion's EV spread for Pokemon X and Y
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