Riolu
No. 0447
Type: Fighting
Though infantile in appearance, it has the mysterious ability to read the minds of humans. The pure of heart are met with Riolu's approval, while those of ill nature earn only its loathing.
Base stats
| HP | 40 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 70 |
| Defense | 40 |
| Sp. Attack | 35 |
| Sp. Defense | 40 |
| Speed | 60 |
Total 285
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Dark — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Crunch
- Electric — Covers 1 weakness (Flying) — Thunder Punch
- Ghost — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Shadow Claw
- Ice — Covers 1 weakness (Flying) — Ice Punch
- Poison — Covers 1 weakness (Fairy) — Poison Jab
- Rock — Covers 1 weakness (Flying) — Rock Slide
Abilities
- Steadfast
- Inner Focus
- Prankster (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Aerial Ace
- Agility
- Bite
- Brick Break
- Bulk Up
- Bulldoze
- Bullet Punch
- Circle Throw
- Close Combat
- Coaching
- Copycat
- Counter
- Cross Chop
- Crunch
- Detect
- Dig
- Drain Punch
- Earthquake
- Endure
- Facade
- Feint
- Final Gambit
- Fling
- Focus Blast
- Focus Punch
- Force Palm
- Helping Hand
- High Jump Kick
- Howl
- Ice Punch
- Low Kick
- Low Sweep
- Metal Claw
- Nasty Plot
- Poison Jab
- Protect
- Psych Up
- Quick Attack
- Quick Guard
- Rain Dance
- Rest
- Reversal
- Rock Slide
- Rock Smash
- Rock Tomb
- Screech
- Shadow Claw
- Sleep Talk
- Substitute
- Sunny Day
- Swift
- Swords Dance
- Take Down
- Tera Blast
- Thunder Punch
- Trailblaze
- Upper Hand
- Vacuum Wave
- Work Up
- Zen Headbutt
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Speed control
- Ability
- Prankster
- Item
- Choice Band
- Nature
- Adamant
- EVs
- 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
- Moves
- Focus Punch, Bulldoze, Upper Hand, Ice Punch