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#084 | Doduo | Pokédex Strategy Moves Database | Seel | #086 |
This article gives you ideas of how to use Dodrio in battle in the Pokémon Black, Pokémon White and Pokemon B2W2 Games. It lists popular movesets used by competitive battlers, as well as a description on how to use each set to help you understand why the moves were chosen. These popular sets are usually the best to use in battle and so reading this guide will help you in your team building.
Gen 4: OverviewThanks to having a high speed and attack stat, Dodrio´s is one of the strongest brave birds in the game, and is quite powerful. However, Dodrio´s movepool is poor, but it remains with useful options such as Acupressure, Agility, Baton Pass and Taunt. Unfortunately, thanks to other pokemon such as swellow, which have better access to moves such as U-turn, Dodrio has never had the publicity that it deserves.
Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Adamant / Jolly | choice band | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
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With 110 base attack Dodrio makes a viable Choice Bander. Brave Bird and Return Give STAB and are very powerfull in general. Quick Attack is too kill of Pokemon on low HP. Payback and Pursuit are both pretty good options in the last slot, Payback will get extra power after your opponont switches while pursuit is great for dealing damage to foes switching out. If using Dugtrio in UU you might want Jolly Nature to outspeed Pokemon with similar speed as Leafeon and Hitmonlee.
Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Adamant | choice scarf | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
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Choice Scarf to increase dodrio´s already pretty high speed might seem weird but with 450 speed Dodrio outspeeds Everything that isn´t scarfed as well in UU, This calls for abuse of flail. Brave Bird and Return are for the obvious STAB. Once you Get down to low health by Brave Bird´s recoil and Entry Hazards it´s time to start abusing Flail which even gets STAB because dodrio is part normal. Pursuit if you switch into something that you know that will run away from dodrio. Payback isn´t an option here because without the Choice Band Dodrio doesn´t have enough attack to do some damage to walls anyway, and if you know that they´re comming just switch out to something that can easily take them.
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Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Jolly | life orb | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
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Just a plain Agility Sweeper here. Life orb for extra power. Drill Peck is prefered since Life orb+recoil damage might become Dodrio too much very quick. Substitute to get agilities in straightaway. Pursuit and Payback cover ghost and both have there pro´s and con´s but overall substitute is prefered.
Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Adamant | liechie berry | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
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Another Dodrio that abuses Flail. Since you will be Subbing down to as low health as possible a liecie berry to boost your attack is a great option for an item. Faint Attack might seem like a weird move to chose but it stops ghost from completly walling you. When you see a chance to use Agility take it the extra speed will make it even more dangerous.
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Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Jolly | focus sash / leftovers | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
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This Dodrio is more of a team player using Baton Pass to give team members a boost. Taunt will stop Phazers from destroying your boosts. Drill Peck so faster taunters won´t stop you. Agility is to boost. If you´re feeling lucky you could try acupressure. Focus sash garantues a boost but if you feel confident you could use leftovers over focus sash but focus sash is really the safest option.
Ability | Nature | Item | HP | Atk. | Def. | SpAtk. | SpDef. | Speed | |
Early Bird | Jolly | liechie berry | 0 | 252 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 252 | |
There are no current set statistics analysed |
Substitute down to low health and get the Berry boost which you can pass later. When you´re down to low health Endavour to get your oppononts down to low health too then quick attack them to death. You don´t specificly need a Liecie berry any Pinch Berry would work it all depends on what your team needs. If you don´t like the idea of baton passing the inch barry boost you could use something like Return or drill peck instead.
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Other OptionsThanks to his Early Bird ability, Dodrio can be used in teams to tackle any moves which induce sleep, such as hypnosis. It also provides an effective counter to common ghost type pokemon.
Usual CountersAnything with resistances and good defense can counter dodrio, especialy if they pack taunt to stop dodrio from setting up and passing to a potential threat. An example of a dodrio counter would be Aggron having a x4 resist to both of his STAB´s.
OpinionDodrio is a great poke that can help your team in different ways, from helping your team with baton passing Substitutes and boosts to revenge killing to just a great powerhouse. For the EV´s full speed and attack are usualy the way to go but if you use some HP evs make sure you can switch into stealthrock 4 times and still live. On the Flail set you could also go with Endavour/Quick attack To abuse Endavour in a different way.