Lum Berry or Weakness Policy for Dragonite?

Currently I have been running this set for Dragonite when I battle people online and I think it’s a great set.

Dragonite @ Lum BerryAbility: MultiscaleEVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 SpdAdamant Nature- Dragon Dance- Dragon Claw- Fire Punch- ExtremeSpeed

I feel like Lum berry is more of a defensive play so you can get a free DD or start an unstoppable sweep if something tries to burn / paralyze / poison you.

However, I see there are people who also are smacking a Weakness Policy onto their Dragonites which makes me wonder if I should do that.

I can see some cons for running Weakness Policy (such as being unable to ward off status ailments). But, with Dragonite’s Multiscale, if he gets hit with a super effective move he already starts off with +2 Attack and Sp. Attack and survives the attack.

So, while both are probably great to run, which one overall would you run?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Honestly if you’re running a DDance set then you don’t need Weakness Policy. WPolicy works really well to avoid taking the time to set up. In this case Lum Berry would work much better, especially with the amount of Pokemon running Scald, Thunder Wave, and Will-O-Wisp

For your Dragon Dance Dragonite, I’d say go for Lum.

Dragonite with weakness policy is killer. It would survive a super effective hit, and start a sweep after using dragon dance on the same turn, causing it to have +3 atk and +1 speed, making it the best sweeper. Lum berry is pretty good also, healing any paralysis from Pokemon that try to slow you down.

But overall, weakness policy>lum berry for a multistage dragonite.