The Best Moveset in Pokémon

[@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer]

"The one pokemon that can pull off this moveset is none other than the legendary pokemon kyreum" Smeargle: *I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known*

[@SecureBirch410]

to be fair, I think hitting something with a resisted attack is probably still stronger than a super effective wet paper bag attack from smeargle.

[@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer]

@@SecureBirch410 But to be fair, he can still USE it (even if it's the equivalent of hitting a elephant with a wet tissue), so it bears mentioning.

[@shepskydad]

@@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer fair, but going “Smeargle can do it” is unexciting 😂 It’s like always mentioning Shedinja’s immunities. It’s a given so I ignore it lol

[@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer]

@@shepskydad Didn't you also mention shedninja though? So many weak pokemon with absurd gimmicks that entirely make them work. Shedninja, smeargle, literally every single pokemon that got a weather-setting ability in gen 7 (for those who don't know, torkoal, pelipper and gigalith got drought, drizzle and sand stream respectively) and I'm sure there's more I can't think of.

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

This is like saying me throwing a gun is just as effective as firing it though. Poor smeargle can't hit anything effectively!

[@iododendron3416]

How to hit every typing for super effective save for those without weaknesses: Use metronome and be really damn lucky.

[@shepskydad]

… I think I need to remake the video

[@n-man8208]

@@shepskydad yah, this is big brain time

[@SakhotGamer]

Metronome gives you perfect coverage within one moveslot, this move is broken!

[@KirbyStarAnimation]

@@SakhotGamer honestly it kinda is with their being a higher chance you get a strong move or a op one like spectral thief or meteor beam

[@gustavonunesesilva6420]

you can also improve this moveset by getting a smeargle to learn thousand arrows, freeze-dry, flying press and shadow ball, hitting 1114 pokemon

[@zememerr2329]

I figured Ghost/Fighting was going to play apart in this since Marshadow (and now Annihilape) hit just about the entire game neutrally only needing their STABs

[@karlamelgar7122]

hisuian zoroark: 🥱

[@i_like_chomp6382]

​@@karlamelgar7122 Night Slash 🤕

[@tylerd1297]

Ceruledge would probably be Uber if it came out in Gen 2 since it would have had (stab) Ghost and (non stab) Fighting coverage with Swords Dance and a max investment stab Fire Blast. Always wished the Ghost type would have got the attention it gets now in the early days. It was always good in tandem with Fighting even pre-Steel nerf.

[@styler3585]

Stealth rock

[@karlamelgar7122]

@@i_like_chomp6382 pursuit 🤐

[@TypicalBaka]

I have arrived to watch this particular piece of entertainment before anyone else. That is all.

[@AmiiboDoctor]

You have earned my unconditional respect for your punctuality.

[@achillyday7882]

i made it 69 likes because i am funny

[@Pao-vo8mf]

too much information. my idea is to concise this in one word: "first". I believe this may become a popular trend.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

The best moveset is Block + Recycle + Slack Off + Heal Pulse. It's the only moveset that has been banned from Anything Goes

[@danielotano8677]

Funbro?

[@Da_Hubz]

What are you recycling?

[@memedaddy7098]

The demon berry

[@PrismaAce]

@@Da_Hubz leppa berry

[@mutedknght]

You actually got me with the water thing. I was thinking to myself "water is pretty bulky, and common, seems more important to hit super effectively" and as soon as you pulled the rug I remembered freeze dry. Good moves.

[@Dave_Chrome]

I remember Mamoswine getting incredible coverage with - Icicle Crash - Earthquake - Knock Off - Superpower Great Tusk gets to replace Superpower with Close Combat and Icicle Crash with Ice Spinner, that mon is just a dream come true. So fun to use!

[@airam1721]

And now great tusk got supercell slam. Sadly that move is pure suffering to use

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

Always liked Starmie's moveset potential with: Surf/Hydro Pump Thunderbolt Ice Beam Psychic You can practically dent everything for neutral damage.

[@Shmandalf]

Plus its shiny is pretty cool with the blue gem

[@shepskydad]

Can’t go wrong with Bolt/Beam

[@necrozma4029]

And it's fast

[@davidtoomey4712]

Lapras gets the same coverage surprisingly. Great for FireRed Elite 4

[@frozenfeet4534]

recover + minimize + cosmic power ;)

[@jonasstuke528]

It is not possible, but replacing earthquake with thousand arrows would allow the set to hit steel/flying and fire/flying types super effectively, as well as hitting the bronzong line. If you add the ability scrappy it'd allow you to hit hissuian zoroark.

[@paulloy8728]

Bronzong still gets hit by Ghost so it checks out in that department

[@douglasnorona6895]

Wouldn't it be possible with Smeargle?

[@jonasstuke528]

@@paulloy8728 i forgor 💀

[@jonasstuke528]

@@douglasnorona6895 yeah i guess, but offensive smeargle...

[@MintyTea_N]

@@jonasstuke528like yeah, Smeargle can have perfect coverage But I also want to deal damage to the enemy team, not step on their toes

[@combro7096]

I see a lot of people talking about thousand arrows as a better option for the ground type move, but nobody mentioning flying press as the fighting type move. That way you can get super effective coverage against fighting types too! It loses supereffective damage against rock and steel types, but your ground type moves already cover against those. Obviously this could only work on smeargle though (since Hawlucha doesn’t get any ice or ghost type moves)

[@viniciusmartinssilva3018]

I'm not sure if it would affect that much the result since the only difference is hitting fighting pokemon with super effective moves, but you lose combinations between rock and steel with bug and grass.

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

So I can so it better in 2 moves. Freeze-dry + Soak.

[@aisushitai2680]

Funbro: Slowbro Leppa Berry Recycle Heal Pulse Recover Block so good it can't even be played in Pokemon Showdown's Anything Goes tier.

[@Star-Hikaru]

Usually i spent a lot of hours in a Type Coverage Calculator just for choose the right moveset to my offensive pokemon, and i LOVED how this video totally represents me during those moments. Also, my take for the best moveset, could go to the usual Dragonite with Extreme Speed, Earthquake, and Ice Spinner. It doesn't use any of his stabs, or does super effective to 80% of the pokedex, but, uses 3 really damn good moves, it hits either neutral or super effective, and leaves a free slot to roost, dragon dance, etc. (Sorry for my horrible english XD)

[@typhlosion7872]

EdgeQuake and BoltBeam are notorious for a reason. Any pokemon being able to combine the two in one single moveset would be insane. Predicting that to be the answer in the video, but not sure

[@thatguy5779]

Tyranitar. Has access to bolt beam and edge quake. So does dragonite through the use of TMs

[@typhlosion7872]

@@thatguy5779 I know

[@thatguy5779]

@@typhlosion7872 The way you worded your comment did not make it seem like you knew

[@homer23422000]

I think Nidoking and Nidoqueen can access all four of those moves, too.

[@pdr_127]

what quake

[@raphaelleclair7745]

For someone who has been playing since the age of 3 and always had trouble making a type efficient move set, this helped me a ton. Truly amazing video. thank you so much

[@raphaelleclair7745]

Also, I paused the video before your revealed the forth type and did mental math. saying out loud "it's either ghost or flying"

[@yukiizura]

Great video as per usual. If only Freeze Dry was a TM, then at *least* Mew would also achieve this. But I suppose Kyurem can have this one achievement to its name, as a treat. I'm not going to say this is the best moveset or anything, but my brother's Mega Gengar with Dazzling Gleam, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball, and Focus Blast dealt psychic damage to me because I just had no chance. I didn't even have a Mega of my own. He has not been forgiven for this betrayal.

[@shepskydad]

Ooof and that moveset is even more crazy since it’s Mega Gengar. Ghost coverage is just OP.

[@yukiizura]

My immediate strategy was "oh, this is fine, I'll use my Pangoro" and then he pulls out Dazzling Gleam. Why. Why can the evil ghost learn a Fairy move. I hate it here

[@AshenDust_]

At least it didn’t have Encore/Substitute/Shadow Ball/Focus Blast

[@elfabrip]

It also gets energy ball or giga drain if you want to recover hp on your glass cannon for some reason

[@shepskydad]

@@AshenDust_ oh god I hated that set

[@rubixtheslime]

For the best moveset, im thinking: 1. Sketch 2. Also Sketch 3. A bit risky but Sketch 4. Very hot take here, i know, but Sketch. Could also be replaced with Sketch. Granted you'll need to use all these in other places first but beyond that this moveset needs no explanation.

[@CratthewF]

this isn’t possible, but if your fighting move is flying press, you now hit fighting types for super effective in exchange for steel and rock types (which are redundant, as you already hit them for super effective with ground).

[@notmyrealname5268]

This was awesome. Great job on the research. I was admittedly one of those saying, "Ghost? Why not electric?"

[@polybiusou]

this video + your channel are CRIMINALLY underrated!! loved this!

[@notablecascade7]

I would like to point out too that the Kyurem fusion forms are the only two that can perform this well because of their Mold Breaker type abilities. The type calculator doesn’t take into consideration abilities like levitate. So regular Kyurem wouldn’t be able to hit pokemon like weezing or the rotoms.

[@DrMeisterBabylon]

Best Assault Vest moveset Add TERA Ghost, Aurorus gains this moveset and with an Assault Vest and Snow Warning it would be an offensive snow setter that can take hits on both sides and TERA blast to cover Shedninja. It's also a special attacker, which means it can use tera blast as a normal type move outside of TERA too. Tera ghost also turns Aurorus into fighting immune from a 4x weakness

[@Xweiyiq]

-Guillotine -Fissure -Sheer Cold -Horn Drill NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER

[@comfy.sweater10]

My all time favorite is gen 3 swampert, earthquake ice beam surf and protect is so great, this set on it's own has carried me through much of the battle frontier

[@Alexcoman51]

This is actually the standard set it uses in competitive as well (if u switch surf for hydro pump)

[@caspervestergaard2430]

Taking either EQ/RS or Surf/IB considering what your team needs, and then toxic, protect and leftovers is also dope. EQ/IB goes well too. Had my swampert even stalling out grass pokemon sometimes 🤩

[@stevebushmi2766]

I have always liked earth/rock coverage for hitting everything neutral

[@schroederluck7984]

Classic edge quake

[@pitchkinker]

Earth

[@aname4390]

Nearly, for example breloom and Flygon, but they still have 4x weaknesses.

[@AkamexAris1023]

You said anything but FEAR so how about something more toxic in FUNbro? -Block -Slack Off -Heal Pulse -Recycle While holding a Leppa Berry. So much FUN making your opponent sit in an infinite battle or rage quit

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

The fun is neverending bro

[@shepskydad]

You’re a monster and I’ve never been more proud.

[@ethanmoore886]

This was the comment I was looking for! FUNbro has to be best moveset

[@chesterthechickeneater1302]

At first I thought great tusk was a great option for ground/fighting moves with ice spinner and Tera blast ghost, but then my hopes were gone when freeze-dry was mentioned

[@walaceandrade4046]

Even if it had Freeze Dry, due to it being Ground/Fighting Type you actually hit Water types harder when using your Stab moves. Earthquake: 100 Power * 1.5 = 150 Freeze Dry: 70 Power * 2 = 140 It only really makes a diference when going against a Water/Flying or Water/Bug type which would otherwise resist your Stab combo.

[@PrettyboyPa]

Mamoswine with ice shard, earthquake, knock off, and superpower

[@makiah_s]

I’ve been playing through a lot of Pokémon infinite showdown and I’ve been trying to figure this out for myself with regards to a hyper offense team, appreciate your in-depth look at this it’s been very helpful

[@MaxWelton]

You say you came up with the best move set, but your winners only have 3 moves. Focus Blast has 0% accuracy.

[@trainfrainebane]

I have been yelling boltbeam in this entire video even though it's probably not right

[@jimmierustler4887]

Alright, that's it. Mr. Rime is banned to ubers.

[@Mr.Smiler1]

Nidoking from the distance: Hi

[@patricklynch4074]

Cant be best moveset with focus miss. Jokes aside, this was extremely well made and fun to watch!

[@squiddler7731]

"There's no moveset that hits everything for super effective damage" Arceus with the legend plate: *"Are you sure about that?"*

[@bdt2002gaming]

Electric-Type Levitate Pokémon would still be fine

[@squiddler7731]

@@bdt2002gaming True. That's only one pokemon though, and there's ways around it

[@Quoise_]

i knew freeze dry was coming lol

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

Might have missed it but I'm surprises there wasn't a Legend Plate Arecus Meme in this.

[@markrenton6174]

It all depends on the current moment's metagame and what you're going to face most of the time, furthermore it isn't recommended contain too many roles in one mon, so the best moveset is balanced with its partner mons' synergy. Right now, you can leave fighting only to your Garganacl counter, since others hitted hard by it (all dark types in OU plus iron treads) have better coverage with fairy, given the walking wakes, dragapults, roaring moons, hydreigons, garchomps and dragonites in almost every team, and water is a very desired type for the most used mon (great tusk) as well as forcing skeledirge to terastalize (or killing it), kill or heal clodsire (careful), deal with ting-lu, cinderace, garganacl, volcarona and moth, ceruledge and armarouge... So yeah, my most valued mon is great tusk and the most used one as well, so I'd say the best moveset now has strong ground/fighting stabs/bulkup/rapid spin/knockoff. Tusk is the most used mon, and that's mainly for its moveset and stats, because there aren't any electric threats in the meta, its only OU defensive trait by typing is quad resistance to rocks and dark resist...

[@surajsood1258]

I clicked for the thumbnail Tyranitar set that reminded me of my Gen 5 one.

[@godsalami]

theoretically you could also add flying press to the mix for the fighting coverage, super cool vid

[@adstheflareon8770]

Best moveset: Celebrate Hold hands Splash Torment

[@thomasraaberg8400]

Given Ghost and Dark are largely interchangeable, it could be that with a dark move instead, a few more mons could use the full set

[@MaxWelton]

What I would’ve done is only calculate how many competitive Pokémon are weak to a given 4 types. You aren’t gonna find not fully evolved mons or Luvdisc at the highest level of play. Yet they account for a good percentage of the results from Pokémondb’s coverage calculator

[@ValToadstool]

This isn't for competitive purposes, and even if it was, you would want to specifically hit whatever pokemon are good and common in the metagame you're playing in, not just a broad list of "competitive" pokemon

[@twangerrrrrr]

damn that must have taken so long to calculate

[@nicolasturetta7959]

Golurk with earthquake, Dynamic punch, ice punch and poltergeist: am i a joke to you?

[@rifie1495]

YEP. golurk is a monster with choice band too

[@randaljr.8581]

whoa u found a good pokemon for the vid!

[@joshuab3918]

sadly, does not have freeze dry for those pesky waterbros

[@Sizzyl]

anything with rock slide + eq is pretty much the peak moveset for anything that can get it and is a move combo I use often. of all 1198 pokemon in existance, only 8 total pokemon resist it (with 0 immunities): Brelooom, Toreterra, Lilligant, Virizion, Chesnaught, Decidueye, Toeadscrool, Toedscruel. Only Grass+Ground and Grass+Fighting, which are answered by most other types. It even hits schedninja! It hits 621 pokemon neutrally and 569 pokemon for super effective damage. All the while leaving space for 2 entire other moves, it's great.

[@boianko]

This video made feel so damn good about the random moves I chose on my Annihilape for the Battle Stadium in Pokémon Scarlet. Stomping Tantrum, Ice Punch, Drain Punch and Rage Fist ftw!

[@dejuanporter8571]

Flippin love this! Now the best defensive or status moveset!!

[@aidenconway9087]

I think that would be way harder to define objectively than just which types hit the most, since status moves are more situational than just damage

[@yommmrr]

Flying press as a move for fighting would essentially give you 5 moveslots.

[@Rytex-nh7pm]

Fighting does theoretically have a move that it can run for more coverage being flying press with its damage calculation being either fighting or flying type

[@AshenDust_]

It’s actually simultaneously Fighting and Flying type, not just one or the other. In practice, it’s just worse than Close Combat

[@Wond3rbread45]

legend plate arceus "judgement is the moveset"

[@Cat.In.A.Wig.]

This process is actually how I decide the move sets of hyper offense or Playthrough Pokémon, especially for Arceus

[@ZebNyan96]

Just 3 and half minutes in and the puns are top tier :D "Let's Cross out Poison"

[@sephikong8323]

As a guy that was invested in competitive Pokemon during Kyurem's reign of terror in Ge 8 OU, I knew before starting what the first 3 moves would be right off the bat, there was a reason Kyurem was banned, and that reason was that Earth Power/Freeze Dry and Focus Blast (and Focus Blast was the most expandable on the list because of how terrifying the first two were together) hit just almost everything for SE and nothing resists it (without FB the only resist are ...... Rotom Heat and Bronzong, which is LOL). But if we're talking purely about SE coverage then you could Swap Earth Power for Thousand Arrows (legality issues aside) as it would allow to natively deal SE against Bronzong, Rotom H, the Fire Flying and Steel Flying types, which would bump up the stats even more

[@TheRoguay]

Whole video I kept thinking kyurem lol. It's funny that no one really did shadow ball, it was usually ice beam in the 4th slot.

[@sephikong8323]

@@TheRoguay Because Shadow Ball is useless on Kyurem, in practice it doesn't help it with ANY relevant matchup, so it generally resorted to simply using a stronger STAB (generally Ice Beam, sometimes Draco) to get greater damage on the mons it needed to do more to make sure they couldn't handle it. Shadow Ball only helps in theoretical scenarios like this, in practice you'd never click it

[@TheRoguay]

@Sephikong Tapu Lele (and hatterene) but it makes sense that you wouldn't want to risk that speed tie on specs

[@sephikong8323]

@@TheRoguay You'd still never click it, Freeze Dry/Ice Beam deal enough damage on their own to where it's everything but a safe switch and it still acts as a great middle ground whereas Shadow Ball would be the most ballsy of predicts as it's almost always the worse play and the upside isn't that high, Lele comes sagely only once on Specs Kyurem as is, so what's the advantage you get ?

[@TheRoguay]

@@sephikong8323 AV Lele

[@Gotonis]

If you're willing to play Smeargle games, Thousand Arrows lets you add a few Pokemon to your list, including Eelectross and all of the Fire/Flying and Steel/Flying Pokemon

[@excalibur493]

The fused Kyurem forms' abilities cancel Levitate, but Thousand Arrows is still better for those mixed flying types.

[@gustavonunesesilva6420]

Also, you can make a smeargle with, thousand arrows, freeze dry, flying press and shadow ball, leaving only fairy and bug types not hitten supereffectively

[@gustavonunesesilva6420]

effectively hitting 1114 pokemons

[@gustavonunesesilva6420]

but as everyone know, smeargle is total trash

[@InfiniteSodas]

Come to think of it, I usually find myself using dragon type moves without ever realizing it's coverage is ridiculously bad. This was an eye opener

[@prism5734]

technically with a moveset of full one-hit ko moves, you can one-shot every single mon, which means it can hit every pokemon for "super effective" damage.

[@shepskydad]

True, minus those with the Sturdy ability.

[@gambel9618]

please make a second episode for a defensive moveset that would be great

[@goGothitaLOL]

And a best supportive moveset too

[@zacharyyoungblood7013]

The best moveset including focus blast triggers me so hard

[@MB-tb4vj]

Kyurem white moveset: Freeze dry Focus blast/hidden power fighting Shadow ball Earthpower Item: expert belt Freeze dry can also hit water type for supper effective It can even hit Pokemon like palkia,peliper,swampert etc with 4x damage

[@theduker5926]

Blue's Rhydon with tail whip, leer, fury attack, and horn drill is pretty op. Can almost kill every pokemon in 1 hit.

[@ConjureNoonSloth]

Very salient point… but can it 1v1 Shuckle?

[@ckb1137]

It would be interesting to instead compute which moveset would do the most damage on average, which I expect would lead to a very different set of moves in the end. At first I'd probably exclude stab bonuses, attack stats, movepools and abilities since that would make the computation way way harder. But just calculating average base power x effectivenss for every relevant combination of damaging move and pokemon seems possible. And while there are around 480 damaging moves in pokemon you would only need to consider the move of each type with the highest average base damage (plus a couple of exceptions like flying press etc) Then for each move you'd sum the damages for all 1,000 or so pokemon. Then select the move with the highest damage output as the basis, then from all remaining moves you would subtract any damages for pokemon which are less than the corresponding damage from the basis move. Then sum the remaining damages and select the move with the highest damage from that list. Rinse and repeat until you have selected 4 moves. This procedure doesn't technically guarantee maximum damage output but it should come pretty close. But ultimately you would probably be left with a moveset which only smeargle can learn, making the whole thing purely academic. But computing the highest damage moveset which actually exists (i.e. taking into account stab, attack stats etc) would be harder than I would want to attempt, although someone with more coding experience and a computer with some processing power could probably do it.

[@SSNNPBCC]

Only way to make this set better is to replace ice beam with freeze dry. If you want an annoying move that single handedly sets up a lot of bs strategies than soak is the best move. Especially since it allows everything to be hit super effectively with freeze dry alone

[@solarsunne4950]

Love to see new poketubers rising up

[@bencowden1224]

Imprison and tranform is such a good combo

[@crep50]

This is probably the best *specs* moveset, at the very least. Although I will mention, not hitting the bulky AF corviknight for SE may make it viable to run an electric move somewhere on the set, because otherwise you’re relying on it to use roost. Very in-depth video though!

[@hyrumkohler]

I really want to see your process of combing through and organizing all of this data

[@Johncornwell103]

Slowbro moveset that got banned from even Everything goes. You literally can't lose. Can't win either but it's hilarious to use.

[@justdominik9812]

The standart moveset of bunde (Freeze-dry, hydro pump, icy Wind, protect) hits everything in the Dex for at least neutral dmg pretty sure. Also Water spout kyogre And eruption torkoal Are great as well.

[@tylerwebb2495]

Tera blast would also let Mr. Rime use a special ground move. If it makes it’s way into SV in the future

[@AnonymousDuckLover]

Thousand Arrows should be the preferred Ground type move, as it can hit Flying type Pokemon, and Pokemon with the ability Levitate, which allows it to hit some Pokémon for Super Effective damage which you otherwise wouldn't, such as Skarmory and Eelektross. Likewise, Flying Press should be the preferred Fighting type move, as the only negative effects of doing this are that some Pokémon are only hit for 2x Super Effective Damage instead of 4x Super Effective damage, and in exchange, you can hit most Fighting types, and, due to abilities, you can't hit Orthworm or Rotom Frost for Super Effective damage; Mold Breaker should fix that, and Thousand Arrows already fixes the latter. Granted, now must be a mixed attacker, but that's a small price to pay for optimal coverage.

[@GynxShinx]

Yeah, status goes wild. Soak/Thunderbolt on Lanturn would do work.

[@CraftBros890]

I knew since you said ice I was predicting you to talk about freeze dry which is really smart idea to hit water types aswell

[@SkadingleMadongle]

Captain Obvious here: Hitting the most Pokemon for super effective dmg =\= Best Moveset

[@julianlastname5730]

I’d argue that the best move set is Body slam Hyper beam Blizzard Earthquake This allows Taurus to be a powerful late game cleaner, with body slam into hyper beam koing most of the format after a bit of chip damage

[@AshenDust_]

Bro has not played Pokémon in 25 years

[@yommmrr]

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?

[@Alexcoman51]

A fun fact about the ground ice dual typing is that the only two type combinations to resist it without abilities factored in is ice bug and water bug. With abilities you add bronzong and orthworm to the mix (unless I’m forgetting anything)

[@darthgamer9861]

I love the sass your doggo throws around

[@absollnk]

Hypothetically using flying press for the fighting move would let you hit fighting types super effectively

[@MystMotone101]

So, does Assault Vest or Choice Specs Kyurem become possibly meta now?

[@AshenDust_]

It got banned from Gen 8 OU, although it mostly ran Freeze-Dry, Draco Meteor and Earth Power iirc.

[@BidoofBalls]

Best move is either belly drum and drain punch or endeavor and quick attack/shadow sneak

[@pkmngamer1236]

My first thought with this video was 'Freeze Dry.' Ice move which is strong, add super effective on water. Happy to see it acknowledged. It's my favorite move for a reason

[@cparle87]

Very well played, sir. I did not forsee freeze-dry.

[@joefarrow1599]

Would have been interesting to split the 1032 into 2x and 4x damage

[@goGothitaLOL]

Including but not limited to: 4x Ground: Electric/Steel Electric/Fire (the only one has levitate) Electric/Rock Electric/Poison Fire/Rock Fire/Steel Fire/Poison Steel/Poison Steel/Rock Rock/Poison 4x Ice: Dragon/Flying Dragon/Ground Dragon/Grass Ground/Flying Grass/Flying Grass/Ground and with Freeze-Dry Water/Flying Water/Grass Water/Dragon Water/Ground 4x Fighting: Rock/Dark Rock/Ice Rock/Normal (doesn’t exist) Steel/Normal (also doesn’t exist) Steel/Rock Steel/Dark Steel/Ice Ice/Dark Ice/Normal (again doesn’t exist) Dark/Normal 4x Ghost: Psychic/Ghost 4x Flying for a bonus: Bug/Fighting Grass/Fighting Bug/Grass

[@sheeplol2161]

with scrappy freeze dry thousand arrows flying press and a ghost move, you hit around 1100 mons super effectively and only missing out on bug and fairy in terms of types in general

[@shepskydad]

The only downside is that it won’t get any KOs since Smeargle is the only one that can do it lol

[@sheeplol2161]

@@shepskydad not even smeargle can do it because it doesnt get scrappy

[@sheeplol2161]

in hackmons however...

[@SuperEljafru]

kyurem was actually a pretty underwhelming legendary until generation 8, when it got freeze dry. it went from RUBL in gen 7 to being straight up banned from OU in gen 8. freeze dry also made iron bundle basically impossible to switch into with it’s dual water/ice stab, hence it’s ban. freeze dry is kind of a nutty move

[@ryleyduke9445]

Poor forgotten Smeargle 🎨

[@EvanFarshadow]

Fighting, Ghost, and Dark are a combination of 3 that hit absolutely everything for at least neutral.

[@ytbtech114]

what about the fighting move flying press as it adds coverage against fighting types

[@ethansacci9435]

I love using mega aggron with iron defense, rock polish, body press, and heavy slam! Only legal in national dex sadly but it’s just so cool how bulky it is. Basically a super shucklebthat can actually kill stuff. Once maxed out it’s def can hit like 2500+. Making body press able to two hit KO anything that’s not a ghost type

[@__KURO_]

To maybe uptadr it I think that for the current moment flying electric fighting earth is a bit better than what you mentioned in the video which is cool because I think multiple pokemon can use those types. Love the video by the way

[@janthecoo4964]

if you go simply by moves of each type thousand arrows with a flying type move essentially has perfect coverage. it also hits over half of all pokemon for super effective damage. i should know, in pokerogue i love to fuse silvally flying (passive ability adaptability) with its 120 base power (now flying type) multi-attack with zygarde. ground-flying type with a 120 base power and a 90 base power move both boosted by adaptability hitting everything for neutral or super effective damage is just so so nice. add to that that this combo of pokemon is decently bulky, speedy and strong with a very good defensive typing and you essentially got a very balanced ultimate lifeform. gotta be my favourite fusion in pokerogue.

[@Silver19897]

I knew it was going to be Kyurem before we even got into the video 😂 I’m pretty sure there’s a video out there titled your team loses to Kyurem. That mon is a menace.

[@mev7709]

If we’re going off of hypotheticals , flying press would close the gap even more with it being a duel type move now hitting bug types and fighting

[@gustavonunesesilva6420]

how do you made those calcules?

[@tylerd1297]

Interesting. Signature moves throw a wrench it imo; really anything with a huge base power or crazy secondary effect can sort of negate the need for coverage. Moves like Outrage (pre fairy days) Focus Punch, Gen 1 Hyper Beam end up outdamaging Super effective moves with less power. Torch Song isn't broken but an example of what i mean with secondary effect.

[@shepskydad]

Very very accurate. Like a boosting move + 3 coverage moves could be argued as better since you have the tools for success. That’s why I needed to simplify 😅

[@liamo.1451]

ShepskyDad: "they're hitting over a thousand pokemon for super effective damage" Me: bold of you to assume focus blast hits

[@pchurch692]

Love the content! Thanks for the videos.

[@homer23422000]

That's great coverage for Kyurem, but for competitive play, you need to drop one of those moves for either Substitute or Calm Mind to get OHKOs with super-effective hits/longevity.

[@TheLudicrousLuv]

Great video time to use this moveset in balanced hackmons 🌞

[@walaceandrade4046]

Hitting things for super-effective dmg is nice and all, but it means nothing if your move of choice dont have the necessary power to back it up. Which i think is the case with Freeze Dry. Only really a good move when coming off of an Ice Stab. Otherwise you are better of using one of your neutral Stabs. Still, these types DO work wonderfully together. Weavile in gen 8 being a great example, it ran Dark (pretty much the same as Ghost) Ice and sometimes Fighting.