Pokémon Hoopa

[WilhelmTheOkay]

Hoopa, Confined

Type:

Base Stats: HP: 80 / Atk: 110 / Def: 60 / SpA: 150 / SpD: 130 / Spe: 70 / BST: 600

Ability: Magician - If Hoopa has no held item, it will steal the held item of any Pokemon it hits with an attack

Notable Moves:
Calm Mind
Dark Pulse
Energy Ball
Focus Blast
Grass Knot
Hyperspace Hole
Knock Off
Nasty Plot
Psychic
Psyshock
Shadow Ball
Taunt
Tera Blast
Thunderbolt
Trick

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Moves Gained and Lost

Gained:
Psychic Terrain
Rock Tomb
Sandstorm
Scary Face
Swift
Take Down
Tera Blast

Lost:
Block
Charge Beam
Confide
Covet
Double Team
Dream Eater
Dual Chop
Embargo
Flash
Focus Punch
Frustration
Gravity
Hidden Power
Laser Focus
Last Resort
Magic Coat
Magic Room
Power-Up Punch
Psych Up
Quash
Recycle
Return
Role Play
Round
Safeguard
Secret Power
Shock Wave
Signal Beam
Snatch
Snore
Swagger
Telekinesis
Throat Chop
Torment
Toxic
Uproar

Full Gen IX Movepool

Physical:
Astonish
Brick Break
Drain Punch
Facade
Fire Punch
Fling
Foul Play
Giga Impact
Gunk Shot
Hyperspace Fury
Ice Punch
Knock Off
Phantom Force
Rock Tomb
Take Down
Tera Blast
Thief
Thunder Punch
Zen Headbutt

Special:
Confusion
Dark Pulse
Energy Ball
Focus Blast
Grass Knot
Hyper Beam
Hyperspace Hole
Psybeam
Psychic
Psyshock
Shadow Ball
Swift
Tera Blast
Thunderbolt

Status:
Ally Switch
Calm Mind
Destiny Bond
Endure
Guard Split
Light Screen
Nasty Plot
Power Split
Protect
Psychic Terrain
Rain Dance
Reflect
Rest
Sandstorm
Scary Face
Sleep Talk
Skill Swap
Substitute
Sunny Day
Taunt
Thunder Wave
Trick
Trick Room
Wonder Room

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Pros
+ Huge 150 Special Attack stat and a solid 110 Attack
+ Great Special Defense stat of 130
+ Good movepool including Knock Off and Nasty Plot

Cons
- Typing gives it a poor STAB combo and two 4x weaknesses, destroyed by Dark type defensively and offensively
- There are a lot of Dark types in OU and UU right now
- Relatively slow speed of 70, outsped by Dragapult and Chien-Pao even when Scarfed
- Physically frail with only 60 Defense
- Magician rarely comes into play


Terastallization Potential

- Powers up Hoopa's strongest STAB move while retaining the good parts of its defensive typing

- Grants Ghost/Fighting STAB combo while also resisting Dark

- Good defensive typing that resists Dark

Potential Sets

Choice Confined
Hoopa @ Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
Ability: Magician
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Psyshock / Psychic
- Focus Blast / Drain Punch
- Trick / Knock Off / Thunderbolt

With a choice set you have a choice. Scarf allows Hoopa to actually outspeed stuff and its Special Attack stat reaches 399 with a neutral nature, higher than Modest Gengar, so it can still dish out some big hits. Specs on the other hand gives you about 600 SpA, which I mean, damn. Psychic vs Psyshock is a bit of a toss up, do you want to use it hit stuff like Clodsire and Blissey or Great Tusk and Chesnaught. Fourth moveslot is a bit open if you want extra coverage or utility. If you're running a Scarf and you don't want to deal with Focus Blast/Tera Blast then running a mixed set with Drain Punch or Brick Break could be an option, in this case run a Naive nature.

Nasty Plot
Hoopa @ Life Orb
Ability: Magician
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Psyshock / Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Nasty Plot

With Nasty Plot, Hoopa can become incredibly powerful but its speed still holds it back with no way to boost it outside of Trick Room. It might be worth running a more defensive Tera on this set or even a Sash just to try to squeeze as much value as you can out of it.

Conclusion:

So, yea, Hoopa is not an OU Pokemon and with the presence of strong Dark types even down in RU with the likes of Weavile and Krookodile, its hard to see Hoopa thriving in really any tier. Though its sheer power may end up putting it on a BL somewhere if it can't gain traction and stick in one of middle tiers. Its poor Speed, massive weaknesses that almost mandate Tera, reliance on Focus Blast or physical moves to hit Dark types, and general vulnerability to revenge killers really bring down that shiny 150 SpA stat unfortunately.

try pokemon unbound​

 

[PlatEspresso]

Cool special stats, unfortunately Sucker Punch
252+ Atk Life Orb Tadbulb Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Hoopa: 296-354 (98.3 - 117.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
Above is Sucker Punch's weakest user having really good odds to one shot Hoopa with it (98.3% rockless). This is obviously a superlative example, you'll probably never see physical LO Tadbulb in any tier Hoopa's in unless things go really bad for it, but it demonstrates what a huge problem it is to be quad weak to fairly common priority. If even that can beat it, any user of it can.