What is a good moveset for Mightyena?
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Gen 7Mightyena @ Darkinium ZAbility: MoxieEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeJolly Nature- Crunch- Play Rough- Iron Tail- Snatch
This set is for use in Gen 7. The Darknium-Z is for Z-Snatch, which raises the user’s speed by 2 stages, in this case, Mightyena. If you manage to steal a stat raising move such as Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, etc, as long as your opponent doesn’t carry priority moves or a Pokemon faster than you, Mightyena could make an effective sweeper. Crunch is STAB. Play Rough deals with its fighting type weakness. Iron Tail is for fairy types. Snatch is for Z-Snatch.
Mightyena @ Life OrbAbility: MoxieEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Sucker Punch- Crunch- Return- Ice Fang / Thunder Fang
Wasn’t that random. :PMightyena @ Toxic OrbAbility: Quick FeetEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Protect- Crunch- Play Rough- Facade / Fire Fang / Poison Fang
Lemme explain (even though this one is quite simple). Protect is self-explanatory. Crunch is STAB. Play Rough covers its Fighting-type weakness and has good power. Last slot is your choice. Facade is at 140 BP because of the Toxic Orb. Fire Fang covers its Bug-type weakness. Poison Fang covers its Fairy-type weakness.Hope this set brings victory to many! :D
This is a sad Pokémon. It has 3 awesome abilities, but is held back by sub-par stats and a mediocre movepool. Quite a shame it didn’t get a mega.
Mightyena @ Choice ScarfAbility: MoxieEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeAdamant / Jolly Nature- Crunch- Poison Fang- Fire Fang- Play Rough
Once you knock out something, you get a Moxie boost, which is nice
Toxic Sweeping Mightyena
Mightyena @ Toxic OrbAbility: Quick FeetEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Crunch / Sucker Punch- Facade- Ice Fang / Thunder Fang / Fire Fang- Roar / Taunt / Yawn / Super Fang / Rest
Crunch/sucker punch-Crunch offers STAB and might lower defense. Sucker punch comes up should a Pokemon have a priority move. Crunch is more reliable though.
Facade-Gets boosted through the toxic orb.
Ice Fang/Thunder Fang/Fire Fang-Ice Fang is good to deal with Gligar, a major NU threat. Thunder deals with water and flying types, and fire for grass types.
Roar/taunt/yawn/Super fang/Rest-The first three are to force switches and preventing Pokemon from trying to set up on mightyena, super fang is for wall breaking bulky Pokemon. You could also consider using rest to shrug off any damage and status. Heal bell support would be recommended.
The idea with this set is to have the toxic orb activate Mightyena’s ability, which boosts his speed when he has status. This also prevents him from being hit by status like Burn and paralysis, which would limit his sweeping abilities. Facade also gets stronger thanks to it. You could also use a choice band and hope the opponent carries a generic toxistaller or has toxic spikes to give you some status. This is more beneficial, but more situational.
Mightyena @ Toxic OrbAbility: Quick FeetEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Play Rough- Crunch- Poison Fang- Facade
Play Rough- Coverage against fighting types
Crunch- Nice STAB
Poison Fang- Coverage against fairy types
Facade- really powerful with poison on and with high attack stat
These are called the pack movesets for mightyena.Mightyena @ Life orbAbility: IntimidateEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Fire Fang- Sucker Punch- Play Rough- Iron Tail
Fire Fang- Best against Bugs, Grass, Steel, and Ice types. Benefits /deals burn damage.Sucker Punch- Best against ghost and psychic types. Benefits/good for slower speed stats.Play Rough- Best against dragons,fighting, and when its head to head against a dark type. Benefits/ lowers the target’s atk stat.Iron Tail- Best against rocks,ice,and good coverage for fairy types. Benefits/lowers the target’s defense stat.Its really good especially in double battles.
Mightyena (F) @ Toxic OrbAbility: Quick feetEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeJolly / Adamant Nature- Crunch- Facade- Play Rough- Ice Fang
Crunch- STAB move good power, decent chance to lower targets defFacade- works really well with this set and goes to base 140 power after toxic orb activatePlay rough- coverage move good power and chance to lower targets AtkIce Fang- another coverage move
Quick feet will ensure you will out speed a vast majority of Pokemon that are not scarfed provided you get the toxic orb off- running jolly max speed will give just under 400 speed and running adamant will give you 358 speed allowing you to outspeed unscarfed base 110 speed Pokemon
OU DestroyerMightyena @ Darkinium ZAbility: MoxieEVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Snatch- Sucker Punch/Crunch- Play Rough- Fire Fang/Ice Fang/Poison Fang
While the title does specify OU, Mightyena is typically overlooked and disrespected in any tier including PU. More than often others will try to set up on it with Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, and other stat-boosts. Idea behind this set is predicting the setup and using Z-Snatch to catch the stat bonuses. From there, Mightyena can usually clean up the scene as long you don’t get Hazed or against anything with Unaware. With +2 Speed you’ll outspeed any scarfers and being a dark-type, are completely immune to Prankstermon. Very overlooked and an underdog with huge potential. With +2 Att you can 1-2HKO most walls like Clefable and Toxapex and OHKO any bulkmons.
Mightyena @Life orbAbility: MoxieEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeJolly Nature- Fire Fang- Play Rough- Iron Tail- Crunch
this move set allows it to cover all weaknesses but still leaves space for stabso fire fang deals with bug types play rough covers fighting iron tail deals with fairies and crunch is a pretty powerfull stab move I would normally run this with a follow me to survive long or helping hand to use as a sweeper
This moveset is for Pokemon Emerald.
Mightyena @ BlackGlassesAbility: IntimidateEVs: 252 Atk / 126 SpA / 126 Spe / 4 SpDMild Nature- Crunch- Return- Swagger / Hidden Power [Fire] / Protect- Psych Up / Toxic
Other OptionsIf you don’t like Swagger + Psych Up, Hidden Power [Fire] for coverage against Bug types and Toxic are good substitutes. Protect can also be used in conjunction with Toxic.
