“Pinch” Berry: Mago, Figy and Aguav Berries are all great items to get Entei’s health back in a pinch. If your Entei build is all about damage, consider this Z Crystal. This is your way of KO’ing Heatran and dealing with other grounded Fire, Poison and Rock-types.įirium Z: Entei has a high attack stat and a powerful Inferno Overdrive off of Sacred Fire.
Substitute is a great way to capitalize on your opponent’s defensive plays and protect Entei from those attempted double targets. Substitute: As a Pokemon with many great matchups, Entei forces a lot of Protects, switches and double targets onto it.If you’re looking for support, go with Bulldoze, but if you want damage stay tuned. You can lower your opponent’s speed, but you’ll lose out on a lot of damage. Bulldoze: One of two Ground-type options Entei has that aren’t Earthquake.Stone Edge: Remember how I said Entei was good against Volcarona and Charizard? Well here’s your way of one-hit-KO’ing both of them.Personally, I’m not really a fan of Will-O-Wisp on Entei mainly because Sacred Fire is right there. Will-O-Wisp: If you’re looking for a more supportive move for Entei that has a better chance of burning a foe, Will-O-Wisp is a good choice.Flame Charge: Another Physical Fire attack that can make Entei just a bit quicker.Roar can be used to phase out Trick Room setters or set-up reliant Pokemon like Snorlax. Roar: The move infamous for allowing Entei to flee as a roaming legendary actually has some competitive viability as well.Eruption/Lava Plume: Some cool Special Fire-type attacks Entei gets, but you’re better off using Sacred Fire.This move does have low PP and doesn’t have 100% accuracy, but this attack will be Entei’s main means of damage output. Sacred Fire has a 50% chance to burn the target and is a base 100 power physical Fire-type attack. Sacred Fire: By far the most useful move in Entei’s arsenal is Sacred Fire, which was a move previously exclusive to Ho-oh.MovepoolĮntei’s movepool is infamous for being shallow, but it has recently gotten access to moves that have helped its type coverage immensely. Entei’s type coverage also gives it ways to deal with opposing Fire-types making it a solid check to other popular Fire Pokemon like Heatran. However, Fire-types are actually pretty valuable in the early VGC 2018 metagame with the abundance of Grass and Steel-types. Without access to its Hidden Ability Flash Fire or any ability that’s better than Pressure, Entei is sort of stuck with its unfortunate weaknesses. While Entei’s Special Attack isn’t too shabby, you’ll likely want to focus on the physical side for reasons we’ll get to later.Īs a pure Fire-type, Entei is weak to many common attacking types, especially attacking types with strong spread attacks like Earthquake and Rock Slide. It can speed-tie with Charizard and it out-speeds Pokemon like Landorus-Therian making Entei a great pick against Sun-based teams. Entei’s stats place it in the role of a physical attacker that can choose to focus on speed or bulk. Stats & Typingīeing basically a legendary Pokemon, it’s no surprise that Entei’s stats are solid all-around.
I’m here to make a case for Entei, and how its role on a team can be valuable for many matchups in the 2018 metagame. Entei had some viable placings in the 2015 format, but it’s usually not a player’s first choice when picking a Fire-type. Suicune is usually the sole representative of the legendary beast trio, but we’re here to talk about its volcanic brother: Entei. This Fire-type comes from a trio you wouldn’t expect to see more than one member used successfully. Many players have been going with the typical choices like Heatran or Volcarona, but like I said we have an entire Pokedex to work with. VGC 2017 was a metagame starved of viable Fire-types, and with an entire Pokedex to work with, Arcanine is nearly drowned out. One of the biggest improvements in 2018 over the 2017 format is the plethora of new Fire-type Pokemon at players’ disposal.
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