What is a good moveset for Scovillain?

Question

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

Be sure to include full set details in your post, e.g. items, abilities, natures and EVs. Some explanation, including the intended game mode for your set, is also appreciated. Access the full list of guidelines here.

Scovillain Pokedex & learnset for reference.

Answer 1

Gen 9 Ubers Moody Stallbreaker
Scovillain @ Leftovers
Ability: Moody
Tera Type: Water / Fairy / Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leech Seed
- Substitute
- Protect
- Flamethrower

This set, if you get lucky Moody boosts, can be really strong. Kind of Glalie but much more focused on being a staller. Leech Seed is what mainly differentiates Scovillain from Glalie, giving it recovery every turn, and with Leftovers, this can be really annoying to take down. Substitute and Protect are here for stalling with Leftovers and Leech Seed. Flamethrower is STAB and hits Steels, Grasses, and Ices for SE damage. For Tera types, a defensive Tera is probably the best way to go. Tera Water gives nice resistances while only having 2 weaknesses. Tera Fairy gives you immunity to Dragon moves and resistance to Fighting and Knock Off and Sucker Punch. Tera Steel is Steel, having that great Toxic immunity while having a total of 11 resistances. Honestly, this mon is pretty fun. Being able to be a offensive threat with Chlorophyll Growth or Moody is a really cool 2 in 1 combo.

Comments

I think I used that set in Random Battles sometime before!

Answer 2

Gen 9 Monotype Sun Sweeper (Fire)

Scovillain @ Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Growth
- Fire Blast
- Giga Drain
- Stomping Tantrum

Scovillain is Fire's Chlorophyll sweeper, so this set should be used on Sun Fire teams in Monotype. Growth boosts both your Attack and Special Attack by two stages in the sun. Fire Blast is for a powerful Fire STAB that also gets boosted by the sun. Giga Drain is used for the Grass STAB since it can be used outside of sun and heals off Life Orb recoil. Stomping Tantrum is used as coverage against Pokemon such as Clodsire, Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragalge. Heat Rock Torkoal is a mandatory teammate for this Scovillain set.

Comments

Would Tera Ground be the best choice with this set?

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This set is for Monotype. Terastal is banned there, and if it was allowed, the Tera type would have to be the same as the type you're using(in this case, fire).

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Oh yeah, in Mono it is banned. Idk why I forgot that lol

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Stomping Tantrum would be amazing if Fire blast misses because that would mean doubled the power

Answer 3

For use in Gen 9 OU, though this set can be used in most singles formats too.

Scovillain @ Life Orb
Ability: Chloropyll
Tera Type: Fire / Fairy
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Naive Nature / Timid Nature
-Fire Blast
-Solar Beam / Giga Drain
-Growth
-Stomping Tantrun / Tera Blast

Growth enables you to get to +2 in both attacking stats, enabling Fire Blast and Solar Beam to do massive damage under sun. Giga Drain can be used in place of Solar Beam to heal Life Orb recoil and incase another weather setter swaps into your Solar Beam. Stomping Tantrum is slotted into the last moveslot to hit Fire-Types that resist your dual STAB combo. Fairy Tera instead enables you to hit Dragon-Types that also resist your dual STAB combo. If you opt to use Tera Fairy, use Timid instead of Naive.

Make sure to pair this with a Torkoal for auto sun, and pack an extra teamate to deal with Fire-Types or Dragon-Types depending on what last move you pick.

Answer 4

Scovillain @Wise Glasses / Life Orb
Ability : Chlorophyll
Nature : Modest / Timid
Tera Type : Fire / Grass
Evs : Sp Attack 252, Spe 252, Def 4

Moveset
- Sunny Day
- Solar Beam
- Flamethrower
- Giga Drain

Scovillain has a really nice move pool with plenty of good choices for both special or physical moves. For this moveset I went with a Special attack based set, with of course sunny day for set up and solar beam as a perfect match with harsh sunlight. Flamethrower is a great move along with Giga Drain which is another viable move. (And as far as tera typing goes, for this it all really depends on what you want to go for.)