Yo whats up guys you got Pokeaim here with
the next Pokemon Sword and Shield moveset
video guide here on my channel on how to use
Inteleon.
Now I gotta be really careful what im about
to say, now this has nothing to do with Sobble
gang, and nothing against the pokemon in general.
From what a competitive aspect, it is the
worst of the three starters, alright?
From a competitive aspect, don’t kill me,
from a competitive aspect, Inteleon is unfortunately
the worst of the three starters.
Mainly because Rillaboom and Cinderace get
great moves and they get great hidden abilities.
Whereas Inteleon is left with Sniper when
it is released.
But, still, hits incredibly hard and is very
fast, so I would call it, its basically Torrent
Greninja.
That’s exactly what it is.
That’s exactly what Inteleon is.
But now that we have a UU tier and Pokemon
have been separated a bit and we already know
what’s really used and what’s not so much
as used.
I think Inteleon can have a place in the UU
tier.
So we’ll talk about the first set right
here.
And we have a Life Orb set with Hydro Pump,
Ice beam, Dark Pulse and U-Turn.
I could literally have said this was Greninja
and like I said this would be the exact same
moveset.
But, we’re taking advantage of the fact
that Inteleon is very fast and very strong.
Hydro Pump is really good versus the bulky
ground types like Hippowdon as well as obviously
the fire types.
You got arcanine, you got centiskorch, you
got charizard down there in UU as well.
So it hits incredibly hard coming off of a
base 125 special attack stat.
Dark pulse is cool because it gives you a
strong hit and a fast hit because of your
speed versus Poltegeist, versus mew, as well
as Jellicent.
Which is a big one too.
Which would otherwise wall you.
Ice beam is there for dealing with the grass
types.
Appletun, also the dragon types, like Komo,
also hitting pokemon like Hydreigon and Dragapult
really hard.
And you have U-turn because this pokemon struggles
with bulky waters, and by bulky waters I don’t
necessarily mean Jellicent but Pokemon like
Vaporeon or Milotic.
They can just shrug off your hit, so U-Turn
is a cool way of, when they’re about to
come in, you get on out of there, and you
send in your teammate that can deal with those.
Whether it be a grass type or an electric
type, depending on your actual thing.
I think this is one of its best offensive
sets.
Especially in UU which just recently came
out.
And Ill be using it later today in a showdown
live so you guys can see me using this pokemon.
Though I might not necessarily be using this
set in particular because i’ve been testing
a few different thing.
But this is a pokemon that can put in some
work in that tier just because of its hard
hitting ability.
So the next set is taking advantage of the
fact that Inteleon does learn Swords Dance.
Now even though it only has base 85 attack
the combination of base 120 speed and the
fact that you can Dynamax makes it moves a
lot better than what they are.
So we have Swords Dance, Liquidation, Sucker
Punch, which is good for, you know, faster
scarfers and whatnot.
Also i think the big thing with Sucker Punch
is that it becomes Max Darkness when you Dynamax
so it actually becomes decently strong after
you swords dance up and Dynamax.
So It actually gives you a way of dealing
with some bulky waters, being a 2-hit KO on
them I think is pretty big.
And the last move we have is Icicle Spear,
allowing us to again deal with those grass
types which otherwise resist our liquidation
coming out.
I feel like this pokemon has a lot of potential
in terms of offensive sets.
You can also run Baton Pass on this depending
on which metagame you’re playing.
On Smogon Baton Pass is banned but like a
Swords Dance Baton Pass set could work.
Ice Shard if you want double priority, though
it is a lot weaker than Icicle spear because
Two icicle spears are basically stronger than
one ice hard and you are guaranteed to hit
2 at bare minimum.
A lot of the dragon types in the UU tier aren’t
necessarily anything fast, outside of maybe
like a scarfed flygon.
So just having that solid option versus those
makes a lot of sense, I feel.
And this is just trying to take advantage
of the fact that it does have access to Swords
Dance.
I wish it got nasty plot, I wish it got nasty
plot because then the special set would be
a lot better.
But it unfortunately does not.
We’ll be using torrent again for the ability.
When you get to that last third of your health,
just boosting your liquidation and whatnot.
I think with teammates when it comes to this
you definitely want spikers when it comes
to the tier.
Some that come to mind are, accelgor, could
be a fast spiker.
If you’re using i it all the way up there
in OU, Ferrothorn is a great spiker as well,
Excadrill is a great rocker.
You also want teammates that can deal with
potentially toxapex.
So, a dugtrio can be a real good teammate
for the Swords Dance set because otherwise
Toxapex doesn’t like this.
I think, again, being a physical swords dance
pokemon who can deal with Aegislash due to
your max darkness is very very cool when it
comes to Inteleon.
So i like that a lot.
The next set we have is taking advantage of
its fast speed tier and that’s the Dual
Screen set.
We’re running the Light Clay and that means
that Reflect and Light screen last for 8 turns
instead of 5 and this is really good for,
especially UU, where there are pokemon like
Poltegeist and Mew and Komo just being able
to set-up, this is a really good set that
can take advantage of that and better support
the teammates.
With Reflect and Lightscreen you’re making
it so your teammates don’t take as much
damage.
U-turn is great for momentum and then you
have Scald as your other move and Scald allows
you to also even threaten physical set-up
against you by potentially burning them with
that scald but also giving you a nice move
that you’re not like, you know you can’t
do anything in the face of a fire type.
A water type not being able to beat a fire
type just off typing alone is just a little
bit sad when it comes to Inteleon.
Again, U-turn just for momentum, and i think
the big thing about this is that similar to
a dual-screens Tapu Koko back in the day or
dual screens Dragapult in the OU tier, the
ability to get on out of there and just bring
in immediately your teammates is invaluable,
right, because you get, obviously you can
set-up dual screens and switch but you get
a whole lot of momentum when it comes to that.
So if my opponent switches out on a turn I
go for U-turn i get to see what they switch
out into and i’m bringing out something
because of that U-turn.
So I think this set in particular is very
very consistent.
Wheras the Life Orb set can be good depending
on team matchup but it also can just completely
suck.
Another thing i wanted to note going back
to the original life orb set is that a choice
specs can also work in that but i do think
that the ability to just free up moves at
any given point is better plus obviously boosting
your moves in general even when you Dynamax
i think is good, whereas with choice items,
if im not mistaken, you don’t get the boost
when you Dynamax, that’d be broken.
I’m pretty sure you do with Life Orb because
you still take Life Orb recoil.
But yeah, dual screens can work, you can also
use Surf over Scald for a little more damage.
Another option is maybe Haze for opposing
set-up and whatnot.
I do also want to note on the special set,
we have one more set, but i’ll go back to
that in a second, I do want to note also in
the special set if you don’t want to use
U-turn one thing you can use too to get past
opposing scarfers that might try and revenge
kill Inteleon, so they’ll try and come in
and knock you out after, is using air slash
on the life orb set and what that’ll do
is that when you Dynamax you get the Max Airstream
and get +1 speed so you already have the Max
Geyser setting up your rain for a more powerful
hydro pump.
Even, honestly, if you’re going to Dynamax
this pokemon, you can even use Blizzard.
Blizzard, obviously stronger than Ice beam
but less consistent because of its 70% accuracy.
But, its potentially possible, because when
you Dynamax, you set-up the Hail.
So having those 100% accurate Blizzards which
you get in the Hail is pretty cool for this
Pokemon.
I also want to note that over Dark Pulse,
I know im going back and forth, but I’m
remembering things as im going through it,
i just want to note that over dark pulse you
could use shadow ball but i like dark pulse’s
ability to flinch and also hit everything
basically in the tier whereas shadow ball
obviously if you have a normal type im not
going to do any damage to you.
The final set we have on Inteleon is not something
you can use just yet because its Sniper ability
isn’t released.
But I want to talk alittle bit about sniper,
so the way sniper works is that when this
pokemon gets a crit, the damage is multiplied
by x1.5.
So the crits are stronger than normal crits
in this generation.
So that’s pretty cool especially with its
signature move Snipe Shot, which has a high
critical-hit ratio.
And if you pair a Scope Lens with a move with
a high-critical hit ratio, I believe the chance
is 100% now to get a crit if I’m not mistaken?
Otherwise even if it isn’t, you have Focus
Energy on this set and what that allows you
to do is that that combination will make you
always get crits on these moves.
So, snipe shot is essentially hitting incredibly
hard.
Ice beam always criting with the focus energy
and dark pulse always criting too.
Again, the idea behind this is taking advantage
of that sniper ability once it is released
and boosting your critical hit chance with
the focus energy, with the scope lens.
And then abusing your sniper ability to hit
even harder.
So i think this is the main thing this pokemon
can do when its sniper ability is released.
Otherwise, for the most part, Torrent is probably
better, in general, unless you’re guaranteed
to get crits, which Focus Energy/Scope Lens
will do for you, don’t, don’t use it (for
now).
I think that just torrent boosted hydro pumps
are going to hit incredibly hard.
I guess technically you could run snipe shot
over hydro pump but just because this pokemon
has base, im talking about, not on this set,
but the life orb set, i keep going back to
it but technically you could but just because
this pokemon hits so hard i think you just
want to abuse that.
Especially because it just limited opportunities
to hit hard due to its low defenses and low
base hp.
But yeah, Inteleon is a pokemon that if you
want to in higher tiers, you definitely want
pokemon that can deal with Ferrothorn and
Toxapex so I advise using a Dugtrio, I advise
maybe a Rotom Heat which can Overheat and
Volt Switch in.
You also want to be able to deal with Pokemon
like Gastrodon and Seismitoad but your Ice
beams do hit them incredibly hard because
they run physically defensive at the moment.
So that’s something you can definitely use.
You know, there’s no ash greninja in the
tier but there’s pokemon like barraskewda
and excadrill so they’ll be running physically
defensive sets.
That’s something that Inteleon can definitely
run.
I do thing that this is the worst of the three
starters, but it can work, especially now
that UU is out on Pokemon Showdown and you
can use it in a tier where you’re not going
to be fighting the most standard Pokemon every
single turn.
Galarian Darmanitan, Ditto, every single game.
So, all in all, Inteleon, kind of like a budget
Torrent Greninja, but still decent nonetheless.
Hope you guys all enjoyed, hope you learned
something of course.
Feel free to leave a like and subscribe.
I’ll be showing off this pokemon later today
in a pokemon showdown live and I might go
back and forth between, I know for a fact
im using a dual screen set because I have
a team that really takes advantage of Inteleon
which i really like.
But also Ill probably try and go back and
forth between two teams and show off a life
orb set as well.
But yeah, ill see you guys next time.
Good bye my frens.
