Should I evolve my Kubfu into Single or Rapid Strike Urshifu for in-game?

Question

Basically, I want to know which one has the better typing and signature move, as well as which one can take advantage of Dynamaxing/Gigantimaxing more. This is just for in game, by the way.

Also this is in Shield.

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Rapid strike style. It does have more weaknesses than dark type urshifu but has a lot more coverage. Also, having a 4x weakness to fairy is not good. Dark type urshifu also only has three resistances

Answer 1

Single Strike Style is better offensively. It has a slightly stronger signature move and uses Gigantamax more effectively (no point of lowering sp. def with max darkness when you are going to be using physical moves :P). Rapid Strike Style technically has better defensive typing, but either way both of them are going to not match up well against Fairy types, as rare as they are in game (although you can use Iron Head/Max Steelspike, which you usually can one shot or two shot fairies depending on how much you over-level)

Hope this helped!

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Thanks Nebby! :)

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no problem!

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Nice answer! I was wrong, my fault to being MAD, lol

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Which one has a better signature move though?

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single strike. wicked blow is 80 base power, and surging strike is 25 x 3 (75 base power)

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But Surging Strike always crits (so does wicked blow, but I’m pretty sure surging strike crits on every hit)

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crit wicked blow: 80 x 1.5 = 120 base power
crit surging strikes: 25 x 1.5 x 3 = 112.5 base power
unless you want to break sashes/substitutes or something, wicked blow is still stronger

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Ah ok.

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but isn’t water type has more super effective damage then dark type?

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I would think Rapid Strike would be better because its signature move crits 3 times...

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what do you mean crystal
water+fighting is resisted by 102 Pokemon
dark+fighting is resisted by only 43 Pokemon

and super effective damage
super effective crit wicked blow: 80 x 1.5 x 2 = 240
super effective crit surging strikes: 25 x 1.5 x 2 x 3 = 225

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No I mean their signature move type

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Surging strikes and wicked blow ARE their signature moves

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that still doesn't make sense crystal, sorry

unless you are talking about type coverage
water is resisted by 292 Pokemon
dark is resisted by only 174 Pokemon

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Dark: 178 Pokémon resist it, 700 take neutral damage, and 156 Pokémon take super effective damage from it. 0 Pokémon are immune to Dark moves.

Water: 294 Pokémon resist it, 557 Pokémon take neutral damage, and 182 Pokémon take super effective damage from it. The following Pokémon are immune because of their abilities: Shedinja, Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Lapras, Vaporeon, Politoed, Wooper, Quagsire, Mantine, Mantyke, Maractus, Frillish, Jellicent, Vocanion, Dracovish, Arctovish, Chinchou, Lanturn, Cacnea, Cacturne, Tympole, Palpitoad, Seismitoad, Dewpider, Araquanid, Paras, Parasect, Croagunk, Toxicroak, Helioptile, Heliolisk, Jynx.

Source 1: https://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coverage
Source 2: https://pokemondb.net/ability/water-absorb
Source 3: https://pokemondb.net/ability/dry-skin

Those are the statistics of Water and Dark. They are pretty balanced, but a lot of Pokemon are immune to Water.

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Thanks NebbyY!

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Oof no credit for me.

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Thanks Y!

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No problem, PX. XD

Answer 2

Id think single strike would be the better move. The only thing to fear is the x4 fairy weakness but you could teach Urshifu poison jab for coverage.

I’ve EV trained mine in HP and Atk and gave it an assault vest. Also made it adamant nature with the mint things

taught it:
-Drain Punch (STAB & sustain)
-Thunder punch (Flying coverage) (Swappable)
-Wicked Blows (STAB & signature move)
-Poison Jab (Fairy coverage)

Hopefully this helps out.

P.s: I personally went thunder punch since my friend went rapid strike and I wanted to beat him lol.

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rapid strike hits 3 times so its not as weak as you think