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This article gives you ideas of how to use Shuckle 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.

Shuckle is used on sandstorm teams, but in particular, it is a key stall pokemon, thanks to its incredibly high defense stats.

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Rest Encore Toxic Knock Off / Protect

Ability	Nature	Item		HP	Atk.	Def.	SpAtk.	SpDef.	Speed
Sturdy	Careful / Impish	leftovers		248	0	252	0	8	0
There are no current set statistics analysed

That´s right, it´s the lovable rock-thingy we all know and love (or, for your opponent, hate) dearly, Shuckle! This is pretty easy, put up Sandstorm somehow, lock them in a move, Toxic them, then either get rid of their items and/or stall them to hell! Rest makes it more evil as it rids poison too!! Do I have to explain Leftovers?

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Rest Sleep Talk Defense Curl / Withdraw Knock Off / Ancientpower

Ability	Nature	Item		HP	Atk.	Def.	SpAtk.	SpDef.	Speed
Sturdy	Careful / Calm	leftovers		248	0	8	0	252	0
There are no current set statistics analysed

Shuckle is (really) hard to kill already. This set, however, will NEVER DIE!!! If you spam Defense Curl (or Withdraw, what´s the difference?) with 243 HP and (+ Sandstorm) 921 Special Defense, while healing yourself instantly and neutralizing item usage/boosting yourself MORE, you´ll be hearing a lot of shouts of frustration from where the other player is. Funny if it could learn Curse instead. Oh well.

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Rest Wrap Bide Encore

Ability	Nature	Item		HP	Atk.	Def.	SpAtk.	SpDef.	Speed
Sturdy	Careful / Impish	grip claw		248	0	252	0	8	0
There are no current set statistics analysed

Who says Shuckle can´t kill anything? Encore a move you can live against many times, while you charge up Bide, later causing severe damage (most of the time). The best part is that they have no choice but to attack you since they´re locked in place with Wrap, also causing more damage overtime. Meanwhile, Rest off the damage you took. Watch out for Ghost types!

Grip Claw is here instead of Leftovers so you can trap them longer, speeding up the process.

Either Wrap or the old fashion walling set.

Eh, nothing special. Power Trick is a pretty unorthodox idea, but it would become a hypocrite; having an outmatched attack stat but soggy cereal defense. Bug bite takes a berry...that you don´t really need. Accupressure is WAY too unreliable to use. Defense Curl + Rollout looks cool on paper, but still won´t hurt much without a boost. Body Slam´s paralysis isn´t needed because you can just poison it. Stealth Rock can go anywhere.

Ghost types, people who don´t care about losing their items, critical hits, Rest users, some Steel types, and Gastrodon are pretty much what stop it cold. Abomosnow, Snover, and weather teams in general remove Sandstorm, and Taunt makes it generally useless.

No one can hate Shuckie, because its insults can instantly be countered! Shuckle is THE weakest Pokemon in the game, but it´s not supposed to attack, it´s supposed to make life hell for your opponents. It´s HP is a pathetic base 20. So what? It still has the defense capabilities of Suicune (maybe more)! Although lack of recovery move is one thing, its Rock typing and usage of Rest, Bide, Knock Off, and Wrap make it want your opponent want to kill themselves before you outstall them. He´s that annoying.