[OVERVIEW]
Volbeat enjoys a small niche in PU thanks to its access to Prankster and its wide range of support moves such as Encore and weather moves like Sunny Day, making it the most consistent Weather Setter in the tier. However, Volbeat's passiveness, weakness to Stealth Rock, and only average bulk means that Volbeat really only finds consistent success on weather teams.
[SET]
name: Support
move 1: U-Turn
move 2: Roost
move 3: Encore
move 4: Sunny Day / Rain Dance / Thunder Wave / Toxic
item: Leftovers / Heat Rock
ability: Prankster
nature: Relaxed
evs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
U-Turn is the only attack on the set as the best thing Volbeat can do for offense is to switch out to a Pokemon who is better equipped for it. Roost and Encore are also staples on the set, as they allow Volbeat to stall and ease the damage from Volbeat's Stealth Rock weakness and break stall itself by locking opposing Pokemon into either setup moves or passive moves. The last move is specific to what your team needs: almost all of the time it will be the appropriate weather set-up move that your team needs, but Thunder Wave and Toxic are also fine options for the very few instances that Volbeat finds itself on a different kind of team. EVs are put into Defense to get the most out of Volbeat's coveted resistances to Ground- and Fighting-type moves, and the Relaxed nature is chosen to make Volbeat as slow as possible to make U-turn more consistently give switch priority.
Volbeat is a mainstay staple of dedicated weather teams in PU, to the point of being almost mandatory, as it is the best mid- to lategame weather setter in PU by a large margin. Volbeat also gives valuable access to moves like Encore that weather teams can use to stallbreak in a way that these kinds of weather teams can't as consistently otherwise. Weather abusers such as Victreebel and Golduck can make the most of the weather Volbeat sets. Alternative setters like Relicanth or Onix are good partners for secondary setters that also have light defensive synergy with Volbeat, as Volbeat can take the Ground-type attacks thrown at them while Onix and Relicanth can take the Fire- and Flying-type attacks thrown at Volbeat. Volbeat can also work outside of a weather team in a dedicated support role on Semistall teams, but very few teams have the space to spare for Volbeat and its specific set of tools. Even Pokemon like Jumpluff, whom would not usually be considered for a defensive support role, almost always fill Volbeat's role better on weatherless teams.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Akir, 231726]]
- Quality checked by: [[name, id], [name, id]]
- Grammar checked by: [[name, id]]
Volbeat enjoys a small niche in PU thanks to its access to Prankster and its wide range of support moves such as Encore and weather moves like Sunny Day, making it the most consistent Weather Setter in the tier. However, Volbeat's passiveness, weakness to Stealth Rock, and only average bulk means that Volbeat really only finds consistent success on weather teams.
[SET]
name: Support
move 1: U-Turn
move 2: Roost
move 3: Encore
move 4: Sunny Day / Rain Dance / Thunder Wave / Toxic
item: Leftovers / Heat Rock
ability: Prankster
nature: Relaxed
evs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
U-Turn is the only attack on the set as the best thing Volbeat can do for offense is to switch out to a Pokemon who is better equipped for it. Roost and Encore are also staples on the set, as they allow Volbeat to stall and ease the damage from Volbeat's Stealth Rock weakness and break stall itself by locking opposing Pokemon into either setup moves or passive moves. The last move is specific to what your team needs: almost all of the time it will be the appropriate weather set-up move that your team needs, but Thunder Wave and Toxic are also fine options for the very few instances that Volbeat finds itself on a different kind of team. EVs are put into Defense to get the most out of Volbeat's coveted resistances to Ground- and Fighting-type moves, and the Relaxed nature is chosen to make Volbeat as slow as possible to make U-turn more consistently give switch priority.
Volbeat is a mainstay staple of dedicated weather teams in PU, to the point of being almost mandatory, as it is the best mid- to lategame weather setter in PU by a large margin. Volbeat also gives valuable access to moves like Encore that weather teams can use to stallbreak in a way that these kinds of weather teams can't as consistently otherwise. Weather abusers such as Victreebel and Golduck can make the most of the weather Volbeat sets. Alternative setters like Relicanth or Onix are good partners for secondary setters that also have light defensive synergy with Volbeat, as Volbeat can take the Ground-type attacks thrown at them while Onix and Relicanth can take the Fire- and Flying-type attacks thrown at Volbeat. Volbeat can also work outside of a weather team in a dedicated support role on Semistall teams, but very few teams have the space to spare for Volbeat and its specific set of tools. Even Pokemon like Jumpluff, whom would not usually be considered for a defensive support role, almost always fill Volbeat's role better on weatherless teams.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Akir, 231726]]
- Quality checked by: [[name, id], [name, id]]
- Grammar checked by: [[name, id]]
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