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This is a strategy guide for using Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style in competitive play for the games Pokemon Sword and Shield. Read on for tips on the best Nature, EV spreads, Movesets, and Held Items to use with Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style, as well as its strengths and weak points.
Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style - Related Guides | ||
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Evolution and Learnset | Build for Ranked Battle | Gigantamax Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style |
List of Contents
Pokemon | Type 1 | Type 2 |
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Abilities | ||
Unseen Fist | Allows the Pokemon to bypass moves like Protect when it uses attacks which make direct contact. |
Type | |
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Takes 4x damage |
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Takes 2x damage | |
Takes 0.5x damage | |
Takes 1/4x damage |
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Takes 0x damage |
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HP | Attack | Defense | Sp. Atk | Sp. Def | Speed |
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100 | 130 | 100 | 63 | 60 | 97 |
Best Natures | |
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Jolly (+Spd, -Sp.Atk) | Adamant (+Atk, -Sp.Atk) |
Nature | Jolly (+Spd, -Sp.Atk) |
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EV Spread | Atk 252 / Def 4 / Spd 252 |
Final Stat Values | HP 175 / Atk 182 / Def 121 / Sp.Def 80 / Spd 163 |
Ability | Unseen Fist |
Held Item | Choice Band
Choice Scarf Focus Sash |
Moveset | ・Surging Strikes
・Close Combat ・Thunder Punch ・Aqua Jet |
This build seeks to enhance Urshifu's already incredibly high base attack of 130 even more by giving it a Choice Band. With a whopping 7 resistances and a large pool of moves to choose from, Urshifu makes for a great counter to many Pokemon in the meta.
To take full advantage of Unseen Fist, all of Urshifu's moves should ideally be contact moves. Surging Strikes and Close Combat will be your main STAB moves that deal tremendous amounts of damage.
Thunder Punch will be a coverage move against bulky water types and Aqua Jet can be a useful priority move to finish off low-health enemies.
This set utilizes a standard physical attacking spread with maximum investment in Attack and Speed. The remaining EVs can be placed in Defense.
Unseen Fist allows Urshifu to make sure that contact moves will always hit, even when the opponent uses Protect.
A Choice Band gives a 50% boost to the user's attack stat, further strengthening its physical prowess, whilea a Choice Scarf gives a 50% boost to the user's speed stat, allowing it to outspeed certain Pokemon it couldn't before.
Focus Sash allows Urshifu to survive a killing blow at 1 HP, provided that it was at full HP.
Aerial Ace | A lower power Flying-type coverage move but gives Urshifu access to Max Airstream to raise its Speed. |
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Iron Head | Alternate coverage moves used for hitting Fairy-types. |
Ice Punch | A coverage move used for hitting Dragon-types and Grass-types. |
Poison Jab | Alternate coverage moves used for hitting Fairy-types. |
U-Turn | U-Turn can be used to switch out of unfavorable matchups, while also dealing chip damage before it leaves the field. |
Counter | Counter has great synergy with Focus Sash variants of these attacking sets. |
Nature | Adamant (+Atk, -SpAtk) |
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EV Spread | HP 188 / Atk 252 / Spd 68 |
Final Stat Values | HP 199 / Atk 200 / Def 120 / SpDef 80 / Spd 126 |
Ability | Unseen Fist |
Held Item | Weakness Policy |
Moveset | ・Surging Strikes ・Close Combat ・Acrobatics ・Thunder Punch |
This build allows Urshifu to take hits while Dynamaxed, get an attack boost when hit by its weaknesses, and increase its speed with Max Airstream. With 5 type-weaknesses, outfitting it with a Weakness Policy has a high chance of activating and its high durability helps protect it from being KO'd by move it's weak to.
To take full advantage of Unseen Fist, all of Urshifu's moves should ideally be contact moves. Surging Strikes and Close Combat will be your main STAB moves that deal tremendous amounts of damage.
Thunder Punch will be a coverage move against bulky water types and
Acrobatics deals increased damage once Weakness Policy has been consumed.
This build uses a modified distribution of the standard physical attacking set. Since we expect Urshifu to receive some damage, we will want a bit more bulk on it. We leave just enough speed to make sure that one use of Max Airstream will boost its speed just enough to surpass the incredibly fast Cinderace as well as many others.
We're relying on a Weakness Policy to turn Urshifu's weakness into a boon. When hit by a super effective move, the Weakness Policy will be consumed and give Urshifu boosts to its offensive stats. Once consumed, it also ups the power of Acrobatics.
Iron Head | Best used when coming up against Fairy-types which Urshifu is weak to. Can also be used to boost its Defense while Gigantamaxed. |
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Aqua Jet | A STAB move that can guarantee a KO on a Pokemon with low HP with its +1 priority. |
Nature | Jolly (+Spd, -Sp.Atk) |
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EV Spread | HP 4 / Atk 252 / Spd 252 |
Final Stat Values | HP 175 / Atk 182 / Def 120 / Sp.Def 80 / Spd 163 |
Ability | Unseen Fist |
Held Item | Focus Sash Life Orb |
Moveset | ・Surging Strikes
・Aqua Jet ・Close Combat ・Aerial Ace |
Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style is a great option for lead Dynamax user in Doubles thanks to its great dual Water/Fighting STAB, as well as the offensive utility of its moves.
Surging Strikes is Urshifu's main STAB move and is a multi-hit move that always hit three times, with each individual hit always dealing a critical hit.
This makes Urshifu a great anti-lead Pokemon since it easily breaks the Substitute, Sturdy, or Focus Sash of opposing sweepers, and also allows it to directly take on Landorus (Therian Forme) since critical hits bypass Attack drops from Intimidate.
Aqua Jet is a secondary Water-type STAB with increased priorty, allowing Urshifu to hit faster opponents without losing offensive momentum. Close Combat deals great damage and boasts excellent coverage but also lowers Urshifu's Defense and Sp.Defense by 1 stage.
It's last move is Aerial Ace which allows Urshifu to take on Grass-types and opposing Fighting-types. This move also becomes Max Airstream during Dynamax, allowing Urshifu to boost it and its partner's Speed by 1 stage.
This set utilizes a standard physically offensive spread with maximum investment in Attack and Speed, with the remaining 4 EVs placed in HP to give it some bulk.
Unseen Fist is Urshifu's only Ability and allows it to bypass protection moves such as Protect and Detect, as well as the held item Protective Pads.
Urshifu has two options for held items. Focus Sash allows Urshifu to survive a killing blow at 1 HP, provided that it was at full HP.
Life Orb, on the other hand, boosts the power of its moves at the cost of some residual damage.
Detect | Detect can replace Aqua Jet and allows Urshifu to scout moves from opposing Pokemon, and becomes Max Guard during Dynamax. |
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Thunder Punch | Can replace either Aqua Jet or Aerial Ace and allows Urshifu to threaten bulky Water-types such as Toxapex, Slowbro, and Jellicent. |
Iron Head | A good alternative to Aerial Ace that allows Urshifu to threaten Fairy-types. |
Urshifu's speed stat is a single point higher than the often used Mimikyu, and when given a Choice Band, can one shot Mimikyu with Surging Strikes that can break through Mimikyu's Disguise.
When Gigantamaxed, Urshifu gains access to G-Max Rapid Flow which ignores moves like Max Guard or Protect and hits its target directly, which is incredibly useful.
Physical Attacker | Special Attacker / Utility | Secondary Physical Attacker |
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Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style | Lapras | Mimikyu |
This core relies on dealing a lot of damage while also protecting its sweepers. Lapras' access to G-Max Resonance can provide unparalleled utility for the team.
Access to Freeze-Dry also allows Lapras to take care of Fairy-type threats like Primarina or Tapu Fini. On the other hand, its Water-type moves can take care of Fire-types that Mimikyu may have trouble with.
The support Mimikyu will receive from Aurora Veil should help with its survivability and lets it fill the role of a secondary Physical Attacker for the team.
Urshifu Rapid-Strike can easily cover the Steel-type weaknesses of its teammates, while blowing away most other threats with its guaranteed Critical Hits.
How to Build an Offensive Team
Lead Dynamax | Lead Support |
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Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style | Indeedee (Female) |
Special Attacker | Redirection Support |
Lunala | Clefairy |
Urshifu's main role is to Gigantamax and deal as much damage as possible with its moves, while also providing utility with Max Airstream. Indeedee functions as both lead, setting up Psychic Terrain to block priority moves such as Grassy Glide and redirecting attacks with Follow Me.
Lunala is the team's backup sweeper and benefits from Indeedee's Psychic Terrain to power up its Expanding Force. Clefairy fills the role of both backup support and cleric, boosting its partner's bulky with its Friend Guard Ability while healing it with Life Dew.
Weakness |
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Urshifu's Water/Fighting typing is actually quite easy to resist. It's likely that Urshifu with a water and fighting type move, a non-STAB move, and Aerial Ace will become fairly common in the meta so as long as you can resist the STAB moves Urshifu uses, you should be able to take it down.
Pokemon | Description |
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Zapdos | Ranking: ★★★★★
・Resists Urshifu's Fighting-type attacks ・Can paralyze Urshifu with Static since Urshifu relies on contact moves ・Can deal super effective damage and set up using Max Airstream Moveset & Best Build for Zapdos |
Tapu Fini | Ranking: ★★★★★
・Resists both of Urshifu's STAB moves ・Has access to super effective Fairy-type moves Moveset & Best Build for Tapu Fini |
Cinderace | Ranking: ★★★★★
・Can deal super effective damage and set up using Max Airstream ・Cinderace's versatility makes it an easy fit for most teams Moveset & Best Build for Cinderace |
Salamence | Ranking: ★★★★
・Resists both of Urshifu's STAB moves ・Can lower Urshifu's attack with Intimidate Moveset & Best Build for Salamence |
Dragonite | Ranking: ★★★★
・Resists both of Urshifu's STAB moves. ・Can break through Focus Sash with Dual Wingbeat. Moveset & Best Build for Dragonite |
Venusaur | Ranking:★★★★ ・Is Gigantamaxable and works well in many teams ・Has high physical defense so even Aerial Ace won't take it down easily Venusaur - Moveset & Best Build for Ranked Battle |
Amoonguss | Ranking:★★★ ・Has access to Spore, a move that puts its target to sleep with 100 accuracy ・Its hidden ability, Regenerator, allows it to scope out enemies and withdraw to recover |
Toxapex | Ranking:★★★ ・Is incredibly durable so even Thunder Punch is no threat ・Its hidden ability, Regenerator, allows it to scope out enemies and withdraw to recover Toxapex - Moveset & Best Build for Ranked Battle |
As Urshifu's signature move, Surging Strikes, hits its target 3 times and makes contact, abilities like Iron Barbs or held items like the Rocky Helmet can help to cripple it. Even with Pokemon that have no type advantages against Urshifu, with the right timing, you can switch Pokemon in with either of these to take it down.
Pokemon | Description |
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Ferrothorn | Ranking:★★★★ ・May not have many type advantages over Urshifu, but its Iron Barbs ability paired with a Rocky Helmet can inflict a lot of damage. Moveset & Best Build for Ferrothorn |
Corviknight | Ranking:★★★★ ・Is good at taking damage and pairs up well with a Rocky Helmet. ・Can hit Urshifu's weakness with its Flying-type attacks. Moveset & Best Build for Corviknight |
Druddigon | Ranking:★★★ ・A mix of Rough Skin and a Rocky Helmet allows Druddigon to deal plenty of damage when hit. ・Its typing isn't the worst against Urshifu but it lacks utility on its own. |
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