Minimize or Stealth Rock for my Clefable?

Question

I am building a competitive Clefable and I have the following moves
-Moonblast
-Moonlight
-Cosmic Power

I don’t know which of these moves to teach (I have Ferrothorn but I want to teach it thunder wave for hindering speed, and if I’m getting rid of stealth rock, I have to pass it to someone else and it is a bit more risky to have Ferrothorn as a stealth rock set because of its 4x weakness to fire and nonexistent speed)

Comments

Why are you not using soft boild in the first place?

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What is your Ferrothorn's moveset? And what are the other mons on your team?

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What format is this?

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To answer First Sinner’s question, it can’t learn soft boiled in sword and shield, I checked the move pool for gen 8. Answering -oPsydxck, My Ferrothorn knows Stealth Rock, Power Whip, Leech seed, and Knock off. Responding to Frozen Inferno, this is singles format.

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You mean those ranked battles thing? I assume that's the format since smogon banned evasion in which case you might as well go stealth rock and replace the rocks on your durian with spikes

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no I just use regular online like the link battle because I maybe a bit scared of the other casual online battle

Answer 1

Use Stealth Rock. Only use Minimize if you wanna troll people. Jokes aside, Stealth Rock is much more useful than Minimize as it not an one time offer. Whenever a Pokemon switches in, they lose upto to 50% of their maximum health, which is really, really useful. And yes, use Soft - Boiled over Moonlight.

Here's the Smogon set:

Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Calm Nature
- Moonblast
- Knock Off
- Stealth Rock
- Soft-Boiled

Hope I helped :)

Comments

This is for sword and shield and this is a clefable I didn’t transfer from FrLg with soft boiled and clefable can’t learn soft boiled unless there is a method I haven’t heard of to do such. Anyway thanks for your answer