Runs Incinerate as its fast move and picks two of four charged moves — Shadow Ball, Disarming Voice, Torch Song, Blast Burn. Some take Disarming Voice for Fairies and Dragons, others Blast Burn for raw damage. Built into the right team it's a very powerful Pokémon.
How it's computed: top 3 current-season meta Pokémon that beat this Pokémon's main counters in sim matchups (PvPoke)
Pokémon favored against this one. If you meet it often, prepare the below.
Pokémon you can favorably beat with this one.
Virizion838GrassFighting
Melmetal791Steel
Tinkaton688FairySteel
Corviknight677FlyingSteel
Empoleon577WaterSteelLead=early edge · Closer=late-game · Switch=swap response · Charger=charge pressure · Attacker=damage · Consistency=matchup stability (0–100)
Skeledirge — Ultra League A-tier. Recommended movesets are based on public battle simulation (PvPoke); counters and favorable matchups come from sim results. Pick rates are anonymous aggregates of opponents GBL Note users actually faced. Log my battles →
