What is a good moveset for Aegislash?
If you have a good competitive moveset for Aegislash,post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for any of its pre-evolutions can also be shared on this thread.
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This guy is literally DESIGNED to use swords dance, if you don’t have the move in your moveset, then what’s the point in using him? By the way if this guy doesn’t get into OU I will figuratively sh*t myself.
Aegislash@ Life Orb / Shell Bell /Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpDAdamant Nature- Swords Dance- King’s Shield- Shadow Sneak- Sacred Sword
The strategy for this beastly sword is to use his shield form (helped with defensive EVs) to set up withSwords Dance, all the while annoying physical attackers withKing’s Shield, switch to blade form (helped with attack EVs) and then start sweeping with priorityShadow Sneak.If you’re up against a Normal or Dark type, or ANY Pokemon for that matter that resists yourShadow Sneak, useKing’s Shieldto switch back to shield form, and then slaughter the enemy withSacred Swordthe following turn.This guy may also shine in trick room, but I haven’t tried it yet.
An attacker when need it, a defender when you want it
Aegislash @ Kasib BerryAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 119 Def / 99 SpDBrave Nature- Swords Dance- Iron Head- Shadow Claw- King’s Shield
Sword Dance- It raises its Attack by twoIron Head- It does 80 damage, and has a 30% chance of flinchShadow Claw- Does 70 damage, and a higher critical hit ratio (1⁄8)King’s Shield-Protects Aegislash from attacks & if hit, it lowers the attacking Pokémon’s Attack.
This Pokemon has a wonderful ability, allowing it to set up in Defensive mode, then attack with new stats. And like some other Pokemon it can go for a Double Dancing set.
Aegislash @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Swords Dance- Autotomize- Iron Head- Shadow Claw / Sacred Sword
While this set is walled by a few Pokemon, steel types in general, it does have strong power and Duo STABs. Iron Head just got popular with the new fairy typing, and with STAB and chance to flinch you’ll be doin just fine. Shadow Claw is next STAB with good critical hit chance. However, if you go Sacred Sword, you get walled by less pokes, though you lose out on STAB. Jellicent is still an issue, however. Sacred Sword is probably the preferred option.
Doublade is the Evolution of Honedge that deserves just as much recognition as it’s bigger brother Aegislash, who quickly rose to fame among the Competitive Community by obviously superior Stats, Movepool, and Typing. But many forget that Doubladeishis little brother; a Knight in training if you can, that deserves at least 50% of the credit and honor it’s Evolution does- the [Twin] Sword Pokemon is the bridge between Aegislash and Sacred Sword after all. However, despite this, it is nonetheless overshadowed by it’s Evolution, naturally. Why would anyone use this guy over a bigger, better version? This is why!
Swords Dance + Automize- “Rebellion”
Doublade (M) @ EvioliteTrait: No GuardEVs: 252 HP / 248 Atk / 8 SpeAdamant Nature- Shadow Claw- Sacred Sword- Swords Dance- Autotomize
The arguably better DoubleDance’er of the Honedge Evolutions, Doublade’s own “Pre-Evolution” Status gives it a 50% Boost to both its Defense and Special Defense, bringing it to a superior Base Defense at 225 and a decent Base 75 Special Defense, as opposed to Aegislash’s Blade Form’s 50/50 Defensive Stats. Without having to rely on King’s Shield to Switch between Offense and Defense, “Rebellion” attempts to rebel against its bigger brother, showing that it is the better of the two with immediate Offense.
Aegislash@ Weakness PolicyAbility:Stance ChangeEVs: 88 Atk / 252 SpA / 168 SpeRash Nature- Automize- Shadow Sneak / Shadow Ball- Sacred Sword- Flash Cannon / Hidden Power [Ice]
Weird how no sets listed here are Mixed since Aegislash has good Attack & Special Attack stats. The plan is to switch Aegislash into something it counters and while the opponents switch out you pull off anAutomizeand when the other Pokemon comes in, you may be able to pull off yet anotherAutomizesince Aegislash in its Shield form is pretty hard to OHKO (even with Rash). You may even get lucky to get theWeakness Policyto activate which puts you into +2 Attack and +2 Special Attack (which puts your Attack stat at 716 and your Special Attack stat at 876). +2 Speed will put your Speed stat at 396 and +4 Speed will put you at a Speed stat of 594.Shadow Sneakis priority and STAB (priority never hurts) or you can go for a STABShadow Ballinstead.Sacred Swordhelps with coverage andHidden Power [Ice]is for Gliscor and Landorus-T or you can go withFlash Cannonfor STAB.
Tips:Having Stealth Rocks up will be very helpful to Aegislash since it’ll be able to get past Pokemon with Sturdy or are holding a Focus Sash. This set is good for late game sweeping.
I present to you… my Aegislash set.
Aegislash @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpeAdamant Nature- King’s Shield- Swords Dance- Shadow Sneak- Sacred Sword / Shadow Ball
This is the way to run a competitive Aegislash. Swords Dance, Swords Dance, use that Weakness Policy, use King’s Shield when you feel like you need to, and then you can sweep. And just when a physical wall comes in/you’re burned, surprise, here’s a Shadow Ball.
Hope you like it.
doubles/ singles TR sweeper
okay, while similar to others, this is meant for TR.
Being a noob and using gimmicks
I made this set for no particular reason, and I’ve been using it occasionally. It’s an okay set in all seriousness, since it has a better chance against Pokemon which try beat Aegislash with Will-o-wisp and such (Hello Rotom-W).
Aegislash @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature- Shadow Ball- Flash Cannon- Hidden Power [Fighting]- Substitute
With base 150 special attack you’d wonder why people wouldn’t use a special set. Then you look at Aegislash’s access to King’s Shield and Swords Dance, and it’s barren special movepool. Yup that’s why,Anyway. Trying to make do with Aegislash’s dodgy special movepool sucks, but Shadow Ball and Flash Cannon are decent STABs with good enough coverage. HP Fighting rounds off the set, giving Aegislash something else to use. Hidden Power Fighting has the potential to KO Pyroar after Stealth Rock damage which is always nice. Also Flash Cannon can 2HKO even fully special defense invested Florges (From what I’ve seen, that’s kinda uncommon) though Wish sucks. This guy is kinda hit and run once sub gets broken =/ so he’s not that great.Itemwise, Leftovers to give more substitutes of course :>. EVs = much special attack, and rest is slapped onto HP. Idgaf where the other 4 goes.Anyway. The reason for running this set, is obviously the surprise factor on teams who bring defensive walls, will-o-wisp users, switch in Pyroar etc. who then find to their horror a specially offensive Aegislash.
Aegislash (M) @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 SpAQuiet Nature- Shadow Ball- Shadow Sneak- Sacred Sword- King’s Shield
For those who remember Brave Fencer Musashi, I present you with Lumina
Say whatever you wanna but I trully believe that special aegislash does quiet good, it might lack sword dance, and the secondary effect of the attacks might not activate that often, but it has 3 advantages over his physical brother:1) people are expecting physical Aegislash2) since you cant set up, also means you wont take a turn to setup (wich most people will expect you to), you can choose to attack right away or use toxic on difficult opponents3) since aegislash will be attacking every other turn (using king’s shield to avoid been attacked while in blade form), he can stall for pasive damage generated by toxic wich will be using the sword’s dance slot
Aegislash @ Leftovers / Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 6 SpDQuiet / Relaxed / Sassy Nature- King’s Shield- Toxic / Hidden Power- Flash Cannon- Shadow Ball
would be awesome if this little assassin could learn nasty plot (i would probably just drool for a whole day just staring at it) but if you are lucky, the sp.def drop of the 2 attacks might trigger making you hit a bit harder and passive damage is quite useful with this poke. You could run Hidden Power instead of Toxic or any of the other attacks for coverage… but I like toxic =P. you could also run weakness policy and enjoy the +2 you missed from a sword dance if you don’t mind not having recovery (or if you have other staller using it when item clause is active)
On the other hand, the secondary abilities of all the attacks do actually serve a purpose while Iron Head’s flinch won’t even matter since you will be attacking last (ideally), Shadow Sneak might get you a kill but will leave you wide open for any incoming attack since it has priority, Gyro Ball will hit hard sweepers, but the damage is not that good against other slow pokes.
Similar to fizz’s set, but different:
Aegislash @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpDCareful Nature- King’s Shield- Toxic- Iron Defense- Shadow Ball / Flash Cannon
With 150 in both defences in shield forme, this guy makes an amazing staller. I invested in Sp.Def because King’s Shield and Iron Defence walls physical attackers.King’s Shield is to prevent damage and harm physical attackers, as said above, while Toxic slowly drains your opponents health. Iron Defence + King’s Shield combo makes physical attackers virtually useless on him. Shadow Ball/Flash Cannon to KO an opponent that may be a threat, usually ghosts so I advise Shadow Ball. If you see a fire, ground or dark type, flee.
Now that this little fella is Uber ( ;_; ), we need a new set for him.Aegislash @ Weakness PolicyEVs: 252 Atk / 34 Def / 34 SpD / 188 SpeAdamant NatureAbility: Stance Change-Shadow Claw-Iron Head-King’s Shield-Sacred Sword
The spread is a little shifty, but it works.Iron Headfor dem GeoXers, and Kyurem-WShadow Clawfor dem Lugias, Mewtows and Deo N/A/S.King’s Shieldbecause Weakness Policy.Sacred Swordfor dem Dialgas, MLucs,EKiller Arceus (dat immunity tho), Mega Moms and Darkrais (lol dont send him against Darkrai).
this is what i’ve seen within the meta game, and it’s super grosss, I hate playing against it. ew.
Aegislash (M) @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpeJolly Nature- Shadow Sneak- Swords Dance- Sacred Sword- King’s Shield
oh well :p
Aegislash @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- King’s Shield- Autotomize- Iron Head- Shadow Claw / Shadow Sneak
A sweeper. Use King Shield on the first turn to scout the opponent. Then use Autotomize to boost your speed. If everything goes right, your Weakness Policy should activate, and you will have +2 Speed and +2 Attack. You can now proceed to sweep with Iron Head and Shadow Claw/Shadow Sneak.
Literally one person wanted this so I’m writing one.
The best set is bulky swords dance. This is the standard smogon set except with Toxic instead of Shadow Claw, as with te exception of the two steel types it helps break through some of its normal checks and cripple otherwise ‘easy’ switchins.
Doublade @ EvioliteAbility: No GuardEVs: 252 HP / 180 Atk / 76 SpDAdamant Nature- Swords Dance- Shadow Sneak / Shadow Claw- Sacred Sword / Pursuit- Toxic
Pursuit also doesn’t do much honestly (it needs SR to 2HKo Espeon e.e) but it’s nice resistances and typing means that it comes in on most Psychic’s barring stray Shadow Balls. Doublade really lacks options. It’s too slow to make use of Destiny Bond. RestTalk could be aight if it had any sort of immediate power, so I guess if you really wanted to you could run something like
Doublade @ EvioliteAbility: No GuardEVs: 252 HP / 180 Atk / 76 SpDAdamant Nature- Swords Dance- Shadow Claw- Rest- Sleep Talk
But honestly it’s really not great, as it has to predict a switch or eat a hit and hope to not die in order to pull of a rest, and then if you keep getting SD’s while asleep then you just get KO’d anyway.
My opinion would to just use standard bulky Dou, and if you really want to be spicy Toxic is a nice tech.
Aegislash @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpDAdamant Nature- Shadow Claw- Iron Head- Close Combat / Sacred Sword- King’s Shield
Shadow Claw and Iron Head are STAB, and Shadow Claw is coverage for ghosts. Close Combat is coverage for Dark types and is amazing overall. King’s Shield helps its pitiful defense stat in Blade form and is free Leftovers recovery. In addition, if you don’t like the Def and SpD drop from CC, you can go Sacred Sword.
Aegislash @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 248 Atk / 8 SpeJolly / Adamant Nature- Shadow Claw- Iron Head- Close Combat- Autotomize
Standard WP sweeper. Autotomize to fix its 60 Speed, which is really terrible considering in Blade form ‘slash has 60/50/50 defenses.
Aegislash @ Choice SpecsAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid Nature- Shadow Ball- Flash Cannon- Shock Wave / Hyper Beam- Hidden Power [Ice]
Yeah sorry. NatDex or gen 7 only set. Shadow Ball and Flash Cannon are STAB. Shock Wave is coverage and HP Ice is for a makeshift BoltBeam and also covers Ground types and Dragon types like Mega Salamence and Garchomp. Hyper Beam is just there because Aegislash’s special movepool is rubbish.
VGC/doubles setIIIV
Aegislash @ LeftoversAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 28 Def / 200 SpA / 28 SpDCareful Nature- Shadow Ball- Flash Cannon- King’s Shield- Wide Guard / Substitute
Dual Dance Aegislash
Gen 8 UU / National Dex UUAegislash @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeAdamant / Jolly Nature- Swords Dance- Autotomize- Sacred Sword- Shadow Claw / Iron Head
Swords Dance boosts your attack. Automize boosts your speed. Sacred Sword is coverage that deals with dark types. Shadow Claw or Iron Head, depending on which move you choose, is STAB.
Was supposed to be the Sword and Shield Mascot but was nerfed. GAMEFREAK got ashamed and made Zacian and Zamazenta instead to compensate.
Trickster (Aegislash) @ Iron BallAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpABrave Nature- Power Trick- Shadow Ball- Gyro Ball- Close Combat
Used inTrick Rooms.Power Trick so you don’t lower your Higher Stat. King’s Shield will retain the Defense Lowering, while Power Trick will switch Defense Lowered to Attack Lowered as it literally swaps your attack and defense (when you focus on defense, e.g. the target used a 2-turn move without herb, offense first, defense next, right?)
Close Combat is obvious.Gyro Ball cuz’ you’re slowest as possible.Shadow Ball to surprise random people who think you carry Swords Dance and wall you.
Aegislash is the mascot of versatile Pokémon, being able to freely switch between its powerful Blade form and its resistant Shield form. This makes it a very tough opponent to face!
Gen VIII OU(Ended up banned from UU apparently)Physical Setup SweeperAegislash @ Weakness PolicyAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Swords Dance/ Autotomize- Iron Head/ Shadow Claw- Close Combat- Shadow Sneak/ King’s Shield
Aegislash can use its massive bulk in its Shield form to setup withSwords DanceorAutotomizeand potencially grab aWeakness Policyboost upon being hit by aSuper Effective move
Iron HeadandShadow Claware STAB movesClose Combatis powerful coverageShadow Sneak’s priorty is always useful, particularly on theSwords Dancevariant, whileKing’s Shieldcan change it back to its Sheild form in case it is needed(be aware that it doesn’t protect it from status moves, only from direct damaging moves).
Aegislash (M) @ Choice BandAbility: Stance ChangeEVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpDBrave Nature- Shadow Sneak- Iron Head- Shadow Claw- Sacred Sword
