What is a good moveset for Gholdengo?

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Gholdengo @ Life OrbAbility: Good as GoldEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Dazzling Gleam- Make It Rain- Nasty Plot- Shadow Ball

A signature move “Make it Rain” that’s incredibly powerful with an easily reversible downside, its incredible ability that keeps it from being put on a timer, a truly monstrous special attack stat, an amazing typing, oh my god, the perks keep coming! Gholdengo is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Nasty Plot first to up the effects of Make it Rain, then Terastalize into Tera Steel to up Make it Rain’s power EVEN FURTHER, then use Make it Rain twice and finish off whatever opponent necessary.

(Edit: I didn’t realize that Make it Rain only lowered your special attack ONCE. Boosts Gholdengo up by so much!)

Gen 9 Monotype Nasty Plot (Ghost/Steel)Gholdengo @ LeftoversAbility: Good as GoldEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Nasty Plot- Make It Rain- Shadow Ball / Thunderbolt- Recover

A Nasty Plot Gholdengo set for Gen 9 Monotype. Nasty Plot is used to boost Gholdengo’s Special Attack and helps with the Special Attack drop from Gholdengo’s Steel STAB, Make It Rain. Shadow Ball is used for Ghost STAB, while Thunderbolt allows Gholdengo to hit bulky Water-types such as Dondozo. Recover is used for HP recovery.

Weird Set but worked well

Gholdengo @ Assault VestAbility: Good as GoldEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDNature: ModestTera Type: Fairy

Many people have been using the broken signature move “Make It Rain”. However, this set revolves around Flash Cannon - a move that has chance to lower opponent’s SpD - The same as Shadow Ball, it’s other STAB. Thunderbolt is for Corviknight - who Gholdy walls by technicality and Power Gem is for Volcarona specifically. Dazzling Gleam is Tera Fairy’s choice. AV takes away Gholdengo’s ability to use Nasty Plot for MIR, therefore FC is the choice.

+3 252 SpA Espathra Stored Power (260 BP) vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gholdengo: 319-376 (84.3 - 99.4%) – guaranteed 2HKOwith Es. Calm Mind 3 times and Speed Boost max.252+ SpA Aegislash-Blade Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Gholdengo: 218-260 (57.6 - 68.7%) – guaranteed 2HKO(Just an example)

Gen 9 Monotype Choice Scarf / Choice Specs (Ghost/Steel)Gholdengo @ Choice Scarf / Choice SpecsAbility: Good as GoldEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Shadow Ball- Make It Rain- Nasty Plot / Recover / Thunderbolt / Focus Blast- Trick / Focus Blast / Thunderbolt

A Choice Scarf / Choice Specs set for Gen 9 Monotype. Shadow Ball is used for Ghost STAB. Make It Rain is used as a powerful Steel STAB despite the special attack drop. Choice Scarf sets usually use Nasty Plot / Recover in the 3rd moveslot with Trick as the 4th slot. I’ll explain how Nasty Plot / Recover on the Scarf set works. You’ll need to Trick a Pokemon who will get crippled by Choice Scarf. They’ll switch out if they are locked into a move that won’t help them, allowing you a free turn to use Nasty Plot to boost your Special Attack, or Recover to allow you to restore some HP. If you use Choice Specs, use Thunderbolt and Focus Blast as the 3rd and 4th moveslots. Thunderbolt is used for Bulky Water-types such as Dondozo. Focus Blast allows you to hit Pokemon such as Hydreigon, Kingambit, and Chi-Yu super effectively.

OU / National Dex

Gholdengo @ Air BalloonAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: GhostEVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid / Modest Nature- Shadow Ball- Make It Rain- Focus Blast- Nasty Plot

The best mon in OU right now, probably. Gholdengo’s ability in Good as Gold and great defensive typing with a Rapid Spin and Mortal Spin immunity let it be probably the most effective Pokemon ever at keeping hazards up. This set uses Nasty Plot to set up on common hazard removers and to beat roadblocks such as Ting-Lu and Corviknight. Shadow Ball is great STAB that can hit most of the tier neutrally, Make It Rain is a steel type nuke, Focus Blast can do a lot to Ting-Lu and the Paradox Donphans, and has a 70% chance of destroying Cyclizar and Maushold (and a 30% chance of selling the game).

Teammates for Gholdengo

Glimmora can act as a great teammate for Gholdengo by setting up hazards to weaken checks and to make Gholdengo more useful to its teammates.

Sticky Web.

You can use Gholdengo + Glimmora + pretty much anything else and win. Some other good offensive teammates would be Chi-Yu, Chien-Pao, Roaring Moon, Dragonite, Quaquaval, Annihilape, Espathra, Lokix, Dragapult, Baxcalibur, Kingambit, Ceruledge, Maushold, Shed Tail Cyclizar literally anything remotely good that is strong you get the point

Gen 9 National Dex Monotype (Steel)Gholdengo @ Ghostium ZAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 252 HP / 72 Def / 184 SpeModest NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Thunder Wave- Hex- Nasty Plot- Recover

This Gholdengo set is featured as the POTW in the National Dex Monotype Room on Showdown at the time of this post. I used the set, and I’ve been enjoying it. This is a Thunder Wave Gholdengo set. Gholdengo uses Thunder Wave to spread yellow magic that slows down fast Pokemon, which is useful for your slower teammates. Hex is used to take advantage of the status conditions inflicted on opposing Pokemon. Nasty Plot boosts Gholdengo’s Special Attack, allowing Gholdengo to become a dangerous win condition with Hex + Nasty Plot. Recover is used for HP recovery. Ghostium Z is used as the item to have a powerful one-time nuke and take less damage from Knock Off, which is useful against Pokemon such as Mega Sableye, Mega Mawile, Iron Valiant, and Tornadus-Therian.

252 HP EVs are used for bulk. 184 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Max Speed Adamant Tapu Bulu. The 72 Defense EVs are leftover EVs put in defense to help Gholdengo take physical hits better. Modest Nature is used to be able to OHKO Iron Valiant with Hex after paralyzing it with Thunder Wave. Do note this set has to be used in National Dex Monotype, as this set has Ghostium Z as the item.

Gen 9 Monotype Substitute (Ghost)Gholdengo @ MetronomeAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 88 HP / 252 SpA / 168 SpeModest NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Substitute- Focus Blast- Flash Cannon- Shadow Ball

This is a Substitute set with Metronome Gholdengo can use on Ghost teams in Gen 9 Monotype. Metronome being the item allows Gholdengo to bluff a Choice Scarf set, which can lead to Pokemon such as Kingambit using Substitute, allowing Gholdengo to setup a Substitute. Gholdengo can also setup its Substitute against passive Pokemon. Focus Blast lets Gholdengo hit Dark-types such as Kingamit, Ting-Lu, and Hydreigon. Flash Cannon is used for a Steel STAB that doesn’t have any drawbacks like Make It Rain does. Shadow Ball is used for a Ghost STAB that works nicely with Gholdengo’s other two attacks. Metronome allows Gholdengo’s attacks to become stronger the more it spams an attack, allowing it to break past bulky Pokemon it normally wouldn’t such as Dondozo. Substitute being up can let Gholdengo spam an attack that it needs to spam.

252 Special Attack EVs and a Modest Nature allow Gholdengo to hit as hard as possible. 168 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Pokemon such as Magnezone and Adamant Cetitan when snow isn’t up. The rest of the EVs are used in HP for a little bit of bulk.

Gholdengo @ Wise GlassesAbility: Good as GoldEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Make It Rain- Nasty Plot- Dazzling Gleam- Shadow Ball

Wow! This Pokémon is already OP.

Make It Rain is already powerful but with Tera Type, Wise Glasses, 252 SpA EVs, STAB, and Nasty Plot, this move is 200+ damage. Dazzling Gleam will hit opposing Pokémon. Shadow Ball will lower the SpD stat of opposing Pokémon. This set even works on a doubles match. :D

Gen 9 OU doubles tanky special attacker setItem: LeftoversAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: Steel (chose it because now Make It Rain will be boosted)EVs: 252 SpA, 133 Def, 125 SpDNature: Bold (lowers Atk, boosts Def)/Calm (lowers Atk, boosts SpD)- Shadow Ball- Make It Rain- Nasty Plot- Power Gem

Shadow Ball and Make It Rain are STAB. Nasty Plot is intended to be used after Make It Rain to bring you from -1 SpA, to +1 SpA. The last moveslot will be Power Gem to hit Fire types.

Haven’t played Pokemon for such a long time but new gen always comes with new surprise.I see this Gold Ghoul has a lot of attack movesets already, so why won’t we try another Support-mixed moveset?Gholdengo @ Rocky HelmetAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 196 Def / 228 SpA / 84 SpeBold/Modest NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Focus Blast / Make it rain- Hex- Recover- Thunder WaveThis moveset works very well for me because it is very versatile in different kind of teams and also gives tons of damage with great endurance. Focus Blast/Make it rain gives a great stab to your opponent, hex can be paired with pokémons such as Glimmora, Clodsire, etc.. Recover gains more survivability, and thunder wave is 1. For Hex if one your opponent isn’t having a status effect 2. Support your other teammates, competitive use.Wish you enjoy this and suggestions and complaints are always free ;)

Gholdengo @ Covert CloakAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 224 HP / 252 SpA / 32 SpDModest Nature- Dazzling Gleam- Make It Rain- Power Gem- Nasty PlotThis is the set I use for him. Gholdengo with covert cloak can only take damage from just damage and also is immune to all status effects anyway. Give it nasty Plot and make it rain all you want. Tera steel cause duh. Power gem and dazzling Gleam for coverage

SubNastyPlotString Cheese Man (Gholdengo) @ LeftoversAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Substitute- Nasty Plot- Make It Rain- Shadow BallPretty simple,Sub and sweep but gholdengos speed makes it harder to pull it off,running sticky web will help and ghold is immune to mortal and rapid spin as well as defog so theres nothing stopping it there.The mons you should worry about is Gambit but Three layers spikes plut if your set up enough can brute force through it.

Gholdengo @ Covert CloakAbility: Good As GoldTera: SteelEVs: 252 Sp. Atk/252 HP/4 SpdModest Nature-Nasty Plot-Make It Rain-Power Gem-Shadow Ball

Gholdengo is more than amazing. With the Covert Cloak it becomes immune completely immune (besides abilities) to status affects. Tera steel does not need explanation. For the EVs I chose HP instead speed because if you look at its base stats, you can see while Gholdengo has a max hp of 378, its max speed doesn’t even reach 300. Modest nature for more power. Nasty Plot to counter Make It Rain debuff. Make It Rain for STABPower Gem for Fire types. Shadow Ball for STAB

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Gholdengo @ LeftoversAbility: Good as GoldTera Type: SteelEVs: 40 HP / 216 SpA / 252 SpDCalm Nature- Hex- Make It Rain- Thunder Wave- Nasty Plot

This is the set I use for him. Gholdengo with Leftovers will survive a lot longer. This thing has crazy Special defense, more than enough to take a hit from flutter mane. My friend Rohan suggested I do a specially defensive gholdengo set, so thanks Rohan! Hex and Thunder wave are brutal, and hex will hit with STAB. Make it rain and nasty plot are essential at this point. This thing does however lack coverage, but at this point its so strong it doesn’t even matter anymore.