How can I make Speed Swap Alolan Raichu useful after I use Speed Swap?

I’d like to make a support alolan Raichu with electric terrain and speed swap. The basic idea is that I use speed swap with a tank, for example aggron, then use electric terrain to activate surge surfer. Then I have a fast aggron and a helpless Raichu. How do I make Raichu useful after the switch? Please include the rest of the moveset, evs, and item.

I play in Shield

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

If you want a Pokemon to get around its low speed stat, the obvious answer is to give it priority moves. Alolan Raichu has a number of priority moves, such as Ally Switch, Helping hand, and Fake Out, although fake out is probably unnecessary because you want to get speed swap off as soon as possible (like on the first turn). Ally Switch and Helping Hand will help support your sweeper without having to be fast.

Setting Electric Terrain is useless if you’ve got the speed of a Pokemon like Aggron, you won’t be outspeeding anything anyway (Aggron’s speed without investment is 70, which doesn’t even outspeed base 80s while Surge Surfer is active, and you shouldn’t invest any EVs in speed if you’re just going to swap them away), so electric terrain is a waste of a moveslot.

You could definitely use Rising Voltage, but if you opt for this move, you might want to include Tapu Koko on your team so you can have an alternate “electric spam” mode, as Alolan Raichu will also be able to do a lot of damage.

I’d recommend a set like this:

Raichu-Alola @ Focus SashAbility: Surge SurferLevel: 50EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Rising Voltage / Nuzzle / Thunderbolt- Speed Swap- Ally Switch- Helping Hand

If you don’t want to use Tapu Koko, Nuzzle and Thunderbolt are good moves too. Focush sash is very important in order to get Speed Swap off, as Raichu is pretty frail.

I hope this helps!