Regieleki - Moveset & Best Build for Ranked Battle

This is a strategy guide for using Regieleki 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 Regieleki, as well as its strengths and weak points.

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Basic Information for Regieleki

Types and Abilities

Pokemon	Type 1	Type 2
Regieleki
Abilities
Transistor	Powers up Electric-type moves.

Regieleki Weaknesses and Resistances

	Type
Takes 4x damage	-
Takes 2x damage
Takes 0.5x damage
Takes 1/4x damage	-
Takes 0x damage	-

What is Type Effectiveness?

Base Stats

HP	Attack	Defense	Sp. Atk	Sp. Def	Speed
80	100	50	100	50	200

Best Nature for Regieleki

Best Natures
Timid (+Spd, -Atk)	Modest (+Sp.Atk, -Atk)
Naive (+Spd, -Sp.Def)	Rash (+Sp.Atk, -Sp.Def)

What are Natures?

Singles Movesets for Regieleki

Wall Builder Moveset & Best Build

Nature	Timid (+Spd, -Atk)
EV Spread	Def 172 / Sp.Atk 252 / Spd 84
Final Stat Values	HP 155 / Def 92 / Sp.Atk 152 / Sp.Def 70 / Spd 254
Ability	Transistor
Held Item	Light Clay
Moveset	・Thunder Cage ・Volt Switch ・Reflect ・Light Screen

Regieleki is the fastest Pokemon in the metagame, with Ninjask requiring a Choice Scarf to outspeed it. Its lack of coverage moves hinders its role as a sweepr a bit, but it has a place in teams that need a fast special sweeper that can fire off boosted Electric-type moves.

After setting up a wall on the first turn, it can switch into an attack role. It can usually win in a straight-up brawl with opponents who take neutral damage from Electric, making it a wall setter with high offensive potential.

About Regieleki's Moves

Reflect and Light Screen serve as the bread and butter of this set. Thanks to Regieleki's phenomenal speed, these are the fastest walls that can be put up that aren't from Prankster.

Regieleki's signature move Thunder Cage deals damage and prevents the opponent from switching out. It also deals additional damage at the end of each turn for the next 4 or 5 turns. This is a great move that makes sure you can control the pace of the game.

In the event that you end up in an unfavorable matchup, Volt Switch gives you the opportunity to turn the tides.

About Regieleki's EV Spread

Max Special Attack investment is required to allow Regieleki to deal as much power as it can get, while 172 Def EVs allow Regieleki to survive an Earthquake from Landorus with 252 Atk EVs when Reflect is set up.

The rest of the speed investment is enough to outspeed faster ground types, notably Garchomp with Choice Scarf.

About Regieleki's Ability

Regieleki's Transistor Ability boosts the power of its Electric-type moves by 50%, allowing it to threaten opposing Pokemon with powerful STAB moves.

About Regieleki's Held Item

Light Clay extends the duration of Reflect and Light Screen letting it last for 8 turns instead of 5.

Other Viable Moves

Explosion	Allows it to save turns remaining on its walls by ejecting itself from the battle. An effective choice for when you're not considering re-setting the walls in your strategy.

Attacker Moveset & Best Build

Nature	Modest (+Sp.Atk, -Atk)
EV Spread	Sp.Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spd 252
Final Stat Values	HP 155 / Def 70 / Sp.Atk 167 / Sp.Def 71 / Spd 252
Ability	Transistor
Held Item	Life Orb Choice Specs
Moveset	・Thunderbolt ・Volt Switch ・Hyper Beam ・Ancient Power

This build puts everything in Speed and Special Attack and pushes Regieleki to its limits as an attacker. Transistor combines with a damage-boosting item to shock the pants off anything in its path, and with max EVs putting the pedal to the medal on Speed, it can even outspeed Pokemon with a base 100 Speed and one Speed stage boost from the get-go.

About Regieleki's Moves

Thunderbolt serves as Regieleki's main STAB move. It gets boosts from Transistor as well which lets it deal a stronger punch than usual.

Ancient Power is a Rock-type coverage move that may increase all of Regieleki's stats, while Volt Switch gives you an option to switch out of unfavorable matchups.

Hyper Beam can round out the last slot, whereas it may not provide type advantages against enemies, it has some utility when used as Max Strike to lower the opponent's speed.

About Regieleki's EV Spread

We're using a straightforward special attacking EV spread with full investment in Special Attack and Speed. The remaining EVs are placed in Special Defense to boost its bulk.

About Regieleki's Held Item

Choice Specs gives a 50% Sp.Atk boost to the user but locks them to only use one move for the time they're on the field. Since Regieleki's movepool isn't so wide anyway, it can easily benefit from this item.

Life Orb gives Regieleki a 1.3x boost to the power of its moves at the expense of 10% of Regieleki's HP. This allows Regieleki the freedom of choice, but at less power and at the cost of it's health.

Other Viable Moves

Rising Voltage	Doubles in power when in Electric Terrain, so pairs well when you expect to Dynamax.
Extreme Speed	For when you expect to be countered with a priority move.
Electro Ball	A viable move only against slow opponents, as Electro Ball's damage depends on how fast Regieleki is compared to its target.

Doubles Movesets for Regieleki

Electroweb Support Moveset & Best Build

Nature	Timid (+Spd, -Atk)
EV Spread	Sp.Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spd 252
Final Stat Values	HP 155 / Def 70 / Sp.Atk 152 / Sp.Def 71 / Spd 277
Ability	Transistor
Held Item	Magnet Focus Sash
Moveset	・Electroweb ・Protect ・Rising Voltage ・Volt Switch

As one of the fastest support leads in the Doubles battle format, Regieleki has a niche in the current metagame providing unconventional speed support with Electroweb.

About Regieleki's Moves

Electroweb is Regieleki's main support move and is a multi-target move that lowers the opponent's Speed stat by 1 stage. Protect allows it to scout moves and prevent it from taking damage from its partner's multi-target moves such as Surf or Earthquake.

Rising Voltage is its main attacking move, and becomes a 140 Base Power move when Electric Terrain is present. Regieleki's last move is Volt Switch and allows it to quickly pivot from the battle to another Pokemon if it encounters a check or counter.

About Regieleki's EV Spread

We're using a standard Speed spread with full investment in Speed and Special Attack so that Regieleki can hit hard and as fast as possible, with the remaining 4 EVs invested in Special Defense.

As speed control is more prevelant in Doubles, Regieleki needs all the Speed it can get to ensure it can use Electroweb at least once.

About Regieleki's Ability

Regieleki's Transistor Ability boosts the power of its Electric-type moves by 50%, allowing it to threaten opposing Pokemon with powerful STAB moves.

About Regieleki's Held Item

As this Regieleki doesn't use any coverage moves, Magnet is the preferred held item to boost the power of its Electric-type moves by 20%. Coupled with its Transistor Ability, Regieleki's Electric-type moves can severly damage Pokemon that don't resist its STAB moves.

Focus Sash is a good alternative and allows Regieleki to survive an otherwise fatal hit and use Electroweb again.

Other Viable Moves

Thunderbolt	A single-target Electric-type move that provides more consistent damage over Rising Voltage, and is very useful if it's not possible to set up Electric Terrain.
Thunder	A stronger, single-target Electric-type move that is best used in dedicated Rain teams so that it gets perfect accuracy.
Thunder Cage	Another good alternative to Rising Voltage. Though weaker, it allows Regieleki to trap opposing Pokemon and deal residual damage up to five turns.

How to Use Regieleki Effectively

The Fastest Choice Specs Sweeper

Regieleki is the fastest Choice Specs sweeper in the metagame, capable of outspeeding even Choice Scarf Pokemon with a Modest Nature. Despite this, its shallow movepool holds it back from dominating the metagame and it has to solely rely on Electric-type moves.

Even with its shallow movepool though, Regieleki should not be underestimated. Its Transistor Ability boosts the power of its Electric type moves and, with a Choice Specs boost, it can heavily damage or even knock out Pokemon that don't resist or are immune to its STAB.

Its speed is especially useful when you consider that you can take down enemy threats who rely on boosting their speed to get ahead, such as Charizard or Gyarados.

Fast Walls

Regieleki's high speed allow it to build walls in the face of offensive threats. By reading the opponent's intentions, Regieleki can easily set up the appropriate wall, then proceed to take the enemy out, trap them in, or switch into a favorable match-up.

Natural Type Advantages

Many of the threats running around the metagame have Electric-type weaknesses that Regieleki can exploit. Some notable ones include Yveltal, Kyogre, Lugia, and Ho-Oh.

How to Build a Team with Regieleki

Regieleki's shallow movepool holds it back as a sweeper in Singles, and it constantly needs to switch out if it faces a resist. In Doubles, it has a niche as the fastest Rising Voltage sweeper - so long as it's partnered with a Pokemon that can instantly set up Electric Terrain.

Use it in an Electric Terrain Team

To use Regieleki effectively, it needs to be partnered with Pokemon that can provide it some coverage with its moves on top of providing Electric Terrain Support.

Doubles Lead
Pokemon	Tapu Koko	Regieleki
Ability	Electric Surge	Transistor
Held Item	Choice Specs	Life Orb
Nature	Timid	Timid
EV Spread	Sp.Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 252	Sp.Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 252
Moveset	・Thunderbolt ・Dazzling Gleam ・Volt Switch ・Grass Knot	・Rising Voltage ・Thunder Cage ・Volt Switch ・Ancient Power

Tapu Koko not only sets Electric Terrain with its Electric Surge ability, it threatens Ground-types with Grass Knot that can freely switch into Regieleki.

Check out our article below to learn how to build a Doubles Team.
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Use Soak in Doubles

In Doubles, you can patch up Regieleki's abyssmal move coverage by partnering it with a Pokemon that can learn the move Soak. This move hits both targets in Doubles and changes their existing type to Water-type.

Doubles Lead
Pokemon	Tapu Fini	Regieleki
Ability	Misty Surge	Transistor
Held Item	Wiki Berry	Life Orb
Nature	Bold	Timid
EV Spread	HP 252 / Def 32 / Sp.Atk 132 / Sp.Def 92	Sp.Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 252
Moveset	・Heal Pulse ・Soak ・Draining Kiss ・Protect	・Thunder Cage ・Electroweb ・Volt Switch ・Protect

On the first turn, Tapu Fini will use Soak to turn the opposing team's Pokemon into Water-types while Regieleki uses Protect. If the opposing Pokemon doesn't switch out, they risk getting KO'd by Regieleki's Transistor-boosted Thunder Cage.

Alternatively, Regieleki can use Electroweb if you're predicting a switch.

Soak is also a good setup sweeper deterent as most attackers rely on their STAB moves to deal boosted damage.

Counters for Regieleki

Weakness

Counter it with a Ground-type

Regieleki is helpless against Ground-types. Not only can they freely switch into all of Regieleki's moves, these counters can set up in front Regieleki without fear of retalation.

Best Pokemon to Use

Pokemon	Description
Garchomp	Ranking: ★★★★★ ・Freely switches into all of Regieleki's moves ・Can set up with Swords Dance or KO Regieleki with Earthquake Moveset & Best Build for Garchomp
Nidoking	Ranking: ★★★★★ ・Freely switches into all of Regieleki's moves ・Resists Dazzling Gleam and Grass Knot from Regieleki's partner Tapu Koko in Doubles ・Easily KOs Regieleki with Earth Power Moveset & Best Build for Nidoking

Check it with Volt Absorb or Lightning Rod

As Regieleki lacks any notable coverage moves, it's easily shut down by Pokemon with the Abilities Volt Absorb and Lightning Rod.

Best Pokemon to Use

Pokemon	Description
Jolteon	Ranking: ★★★★★ ・Freely switches into all of Regieleki's Electric-type moves ・Takes little damage from Regieleki's weak, unboosted coverage moves.
Raichu	Ranking: ★★★★★ ・Freely switches into all of Regieleki's Emoves ・Lightning Rod boosts Raichu's Sp.Atk, essentially allowing it to use Regieleki as setup fodder.

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Tornadus	Thundurus	Landorus
Tapu Koko	Tapu Lele	Tapu Bulu
Tapu Fini	Regieleki	Regidrago
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Cresselia	Glastrier	Spectrier
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Salamence	Garchomp	Metagross
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Kartana	Stakataka	Blaziken
Kyogre	Yveltal	Xerneas
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Rayquaza	Zygarde	Reshiram
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