How to use adamant empoleon?

Question

Basically, I picked up the platinum game today, and chose my starter being piplup. It soon became powerful but I don't know which physical moves to give it. Can you get me a physical empoleon moveset (possibly including swords dance, not sure if it can learn it)

EDIT: Just thought I maybe able to run drill peck on it for fighting coverage. Other than that, I'm clueless

Answer 1

Your Empoleon would have learned Swords Dance while it was still a Piplup, at level 11. If you made it forget, you can use a Heart Scale at the Move Relearner.

[Edit] Sorry, I was looking at the Gen 6 page when I wrote this. Prior to Gen 6, Piplup does not learn Swords Dance from level up. However, it did learn it from TM. My bad, good catch PX. [/Edit]

For Water STAB, you can choose between Aqua Jet for priority or Waterfall.
For Steel STAB, your options are a bit narrower. You will probably want Steel Wing, but Metal Claw is still an option (if weaker).

Keeping Swords Dance, you only have 1 slot for coverage. Drill Peck is certainly an option. You may also want to consider Earthquake.

Comments

Piplup doesn't learn Swords Dance via Level up, just by TM btw. Also you could argue that you don't need Steel STAB and that coverage might be better.

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Alright so I have an idea for a set now, it's gonna be swords dance, waterfall, eq and drill peck

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Just for coverage and STAB