What is a good moveset for Meowstic?

If you have a good competitive moveset for Meowstic,post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for its pre-evolutions, if any, can also be shared on this thread.

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Meowstic (M) @ Light Clay / LeftoversAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDBold Nature- Light Screen- Reflect- Thunder Wave / Yawn- Psychic / Psyshock

Standard Dual Screens Prankster set. Prankster Light Screen and Reflect allows Meowstic (Male) to enable hyper offense teams that appreciate the safety to setup more easily. Prankster Thunder Wave slows down faster Pokemon trying to take advantage of Meowstic-M. Yawn can be considered to force a switch to get in a teammate and potentially put a Pokemon to sleep. Psychic is used to allow Meowstic-M to deal some sort of damage and prevents it from being completely crippled by Taunt. Psyshock can be used to target Pokemon with a weaker defense stat to deal more damage to them.

Prankster giving priority to 3 of its moves means Meowstic-M can use a bulkier EV spread to help take attackers better since there isn’t a point to investing in speed.

Meowtic (F) @ Choice SpecsAbility: InfiltratorEVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atj- Psychic / Psyshock- Shadow Ball / Dark Pulse- Thunderbolt- Energy Ball

The 2 first moves are STABs: Psychic and Psyshock. It is your decision to hit hard sensible Pokémon physically or specially. Meowstic has an OK moveset. But NU is its home, for sure. I insist on the 0 IVs attack so that Foul Play cannot do much of damage, because Meowstic is not that solid. Shadow Ball and Dark Pulse covers the exact same types: Psychic and Ghost. But Dark Pulse flinches, while Shadow Ball has more viability as hitting fairies for neutral damage unlike Dark Pulse and reducing the special defense. ThunderBolt is coverage, as is Energy Ball.

Meowstic (F) @ LeftoversAbility: CompetitiveEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDSerious Nature- Thunder Wave- Calm Mind- Substitute / Shadow Ball- Psychic / Psyshock

I use my Meowstic both support and sweeper for support I use:Thunder WaveSwitch to SmeargleBelly DrumBaton Pass to AbsolThen SweepIf used for sweeping:Thunder WaveSubstituteCalm Mind until the Subsitute breaksSubstitutePsychic spam!

I’ll post a moveset for both male and female! I hope you enjoy!Role Played: Double-battle defense and weather supporter

Holding the Light Clay, Meowstic’s Light Screen and Reflect will last longer. Which move you use depends on the defenses of your team. Sunny Day and Rain Dance will go first because of Prankster, and will help support your companion’s moves (ex: Thunder and Solar Beam) Psychic is STAB, but you could always replace it with Thunderbolt or Shadow Ball for coverage. Knowing that Meowstic won’t last too long in battle, you need to think fast and use the move that you see fit.Role Played: Supporter and Attacker

Meowstic (F) @ MetronomeAbility: CompetitiveEVs: 6 HP / 252 SpA / 252 SpeModest Nature- Psyshock- Signal Beam- Dark Pulse- Energy Ball / Thunderbolt

Using the Metronome, Meowstic is able to use the same move repeatedly and have it grow power over time. Psyshock is for STAB, and it hits the foe’s physical defense, which is something that the foe may not expect. Signal Beam is both coverage and protection against its Dark-Type weakness. Dark Pulse is for the flinch chance, and coverage against its Ghost-Type weakness. The last move is your choice, but it’s recommended that you use Energy Ball or Thunderbolt for further coverage.

Lipstic (Meowstic) (M) @ LeftoversAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDBold Nature- Yawn- Swagger- Substitute- Psychic

Use Yawn or Swagger, and then set up a Substitute. Then proceed to Psychic until death. Pretty simple.

Meowstic (M) @ Choice ScarfAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpDCalm Nature- Trick- Charm- Yawn- Psychic

This Meowstic set allows you to cripple one Pokemon and to shuffle around the opponent’s team a lot!Trickis used to switch items with your opponent. Not many Pokemon appreciate a Choice Scarf and therefore hindering them useless. Not to mention you get priority due to the Prankster ability.Charmis used to lower the opponent’s Attack by a lot.Yawnis mainly used to force a switch or if possible put a Pokemon to sleep. Finally, we need an attacking move or else Meowstic will be Taunt bait, soPsychicto be able to hit the opponent for some decent damage.

This is for the male variant

Meowstic (M) @ LeftoversAbility: InfiltratorEVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid Nature- Psychic- Misty Terrain- Thunder Wave- Shadow Ball

What I’he noticed from looking at the male is that he can hard counter almost any form of staller.Psychic is STAB. Very useful for dealing with Mega Blaziken because one of those can be a huge threat to a team.Thunder Wave is for getting a speed de-buff and maybe para-hacks. It can also stop protect which is always nice. If it doesn’t Infiltrator will let you land a hit.Misty Terrain is for blocking Toxic stallers. Misty Terrain blocks status effects so that toxic cant work. This is especially good for Poison Heal Gliscor’s as they cannot poison themselves.Shadow ball is coverage.

Hope this helps.

Role: Support

Meowstic (M) @ Light ClayAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDBold Nature- Light Screen- Reflect- Thunder Wave- Psyshock

Great! Another Prankster Pokemon!!The moveset is pretty darn simple.Use it’s ability to help you set up your walls with Light Screen/ ReflectThunder Wave is to cripple those pesky Physical Sweepers, so your team can proceed to sweep.Psyshock is there so you won’t be total Taunt bait. Most Pokemon weak to Psychic types are also pretty hefty on Sp. Def, so hitting them for Physical damage can be quite a kicker.

Meowstic (F) @ Choice Specs / Choice ScarfAbility: CompetitiveEVs: 4 Def or SpD / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid / Modest Nature- Psyshock / Psychic- Signal Beam- Thunderbolt / Energy Ball- Dark Pulse / Hidden Power [Fire] / Hidden Power [Ice]

So, the Nature depends on how you want to run Meowstic. Quick sweeper, or Powerhouse.The Choice item can also differentiate with the nature, or situation. The EV spread is in itself simple. That last point is just there to help survive against either a physical or special attack of some sort.

Running Specs with a Timid nature would give it some power, while running Scarf with Modest nature would give it a beneficial speed boost, while dishing out the pain. You can even switch it up to whereas running the Specs with Modest could give you the maximum amount of damage to dish out, while Scarf and Timid would almost Guarantee that you can outspeed pokes like Greninja, whom of which is a very big threat.

Psyshock should be the main choice here, since there are a lot of special walls in her Tier. You can run Psychic if you’re really confident in her power, and also want a bit of extra STAB.

Signal Beam is a Necessity in this case. Without it, She would be defenseless against Dark adversaries. Also hits Grass Types pretty hard, and has a chance to confuse if the target hasn’t been finished off.

Thunderbolt or Energy Ball really depend on what you want to cover. Both cover annoying Water Types, but T-Bolt can also eliminate any Flying Types that are a pain, while Energy Ball can help eliminate threats like Quagsire and Seismitoad.

The last move is pretty tricky. Dark Pulse is there to cover any Ghost Types you encounter. HP Fire is there to cover threats like Ferrothorn and Scizor. HP Ice is for Coverage against any Dragon Types.

Here is my Favorite Set

Physical Tank/Support + Screen SetterMeowstic (M) @ Light ClayAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 DefBold NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Yawn- Charm- Reflect- Light Screen

Yawn :AnnoysCharm :Also Annoys physical attackerReflect :More Annoys Physical AttackerLight Screen :for a better spdef on a team

NOTE:Yawn for a free switch to our setupBad when fighting a dark type or tauntNot really good when fighting a special attacker of dark,ghost and bug.

I like this set when there is no dark Pokemon on my opponent

Prankster Assist Spore

Meowstic (M) @ LeftoversAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeModest Nature- Assist- Nasty Plot- Psyshock- Substitute

The Gimmick:Smeargle @ Focus SashAbility: Moody- Roar- Spore- Protect- Shadow Force

How to use:Go for Assist then Substitute,then Nasty Plot till' 4x but if they woke up,assist again and sub.Finally Psyshock when 4x.

NB:-Assist will always go for spore,execpt if 4 other team member know other move that effect assist-Fighting dark,Insomia,grass,safety googles = Lose-Always use spore if the enemy woke up-Leftovers for more substitute-Speed EV investment is to outspeed +1 priority bracket-Pressure can be a PP problem-This is not for gen 8 since there is no assist-Don’t Judge :/

List of move that Assist will not select

Meowstic (M) @ Focus SashAbility: PranksterEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid Nature- Helping Hand- Psychic- Fake out- Ally Switch

EVs because no bulk lmao. Helping hand is to support teammates, Psychic is just….offense, fake out is stupidly strong in VGC, especially in Non-Dynamax Metas, of which is happening at the time of writing this. Ally switch + prankster = cheeze.

[gen 7] I’ve never seen anyone else use this set personally, but I’ve had some pretty good results myself.

Kurimu (Meowstic) (M) @ LeftoversAbility: PranksterShiny: YesEVs: 252 Def / 212 SpD / 44 SpeTimid Nature- Light Screen- Reflect- Snatch- Psychic / Psyshock / Dark Pulse / Signal Beam / etc.

Basically: be relatively bulky, steal the enemy’s boosts/healing, and once you’ve stored up enough use your only attacking move. I’m aware that it has its weaknesses, but I don’t think many people anticipate this set.

Gen 9

Meowstic (M) @ Wise Glasses / Choice Specs (if not using Nasty Plot)Ability: InfiltratorTera Type: Fire / PsychicEVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 SpeModest / Timid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Psychic- Dark Pulse- Thunderbolt- Nasty Plot / Tera Blast

Tera Type: Fire (if Tera Blast instead of Nasty Plot) or Psychic (more damage on your already STAB Psychic move)

So basically, since male Meowstic is much more well known as a support mon, why not trick your opponents intothinkingthat he’s one? I present to you the Hyper-Offensive Male Meowstic. I went with Tera Fire since that way with his other moves he would be able to hit nearly everything for neutral or super effective damage. If you’re not running Nasty Plot on him, then you can alternatively have a different teammate set up Special Attack boosts and Baton Pass to Meowstic.