What is a good moveset for Furret?

Question

If you have a good competitive moveset for Furret, post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for its pre-evolutions, if any, can also be shared on this thread.

Be sure to include full set details in your post, e.g. items, abilities, natures and EVs. Some detail, including the intended game mode for your set, is also appreciated. Access the full list of guidelines here.

Furret Pokédex and learnset for reference.

Comments

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Answer 1

I. Love. Furret. He's the best regional rodent ever, so cute, and I love him lots. Here's a Gen VII moveset. What do you think?

Furret @ Expert Belt / Life Orb
Ability: Keen Eye / Frisk
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Return
- Shadow Claw
- Power-Up Punch / Brick Break
- Aqua Tail / U-Turn / Toxic

Return is strong Physical STAB. Max frenlines (uwu) makes it a great move for ya boi. Shadow Claw is a great move for hitting those pesky Ghosts, Power-Up Punch or Brick Break to hit Rock and Steel types, and good coverage too. Choose wisely between more power or Atk boost. Aqua Tail is coverage, U-Turn is coverage and pivotting, Toxic because why not lol

Hope this helps! :D
~Furret :)

Answer 2

Gen V

Furret (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Cut / Return
- Trick
- Sucker Punch
- Brick Break

(Return if this isn't a reminiscent moment)

Frisk your foe and see their item, that way you don't Trick yourself a Choice Specs or something when you trick your Band onto the foe. However, Furret also seems to be using an offensive EV spread, doesn't it? That is because if the item isn't to your liking, you go on the offensive. Cut/Return provides STAB. Cut is just there for me, because as my below story shows, I have fond memories. Return is for you other people. Sucker Punch provides priority, and Brick Break coverage.

Comments

While I was training my (whatever the evolution of cyndaquil is named in English) I also had flame wheel. Also flame wheel is one of the not so many fire attacks that are physical without recoil or bad effects. That move was outclassed from Gen IV on I guess.

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DT, Flame Wheel on Quilava/Typhlosion I assume?

Now for the best story of my Cut Furret, the one that truely engraved it into the legends. I was battling against one of my friends when they brought out their Ho-oh. Furret was my last Pokemon, and because I was using it for ingame, it had Cut. Now then, using just Cut, I managed to take down Ho-oh in just two hits (glad he used Toxic first, he must have been expecting Sucker Punch.) I know the same thing would have happened with Return, but I'm just like that.

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Wait, did I make a pun through "engraved it into the legends". Cut on a legendary? Cut your initials on a tree? Cut? Yay!

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thumbsup.gif, trachy!
I myself had a lot of legendary moments with my Porygon-Z and Magnezone's Zap Cannons 8D

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Success! Less than 5 hours and then you changed cut!

Answer 3

Furret @ Focus Sash / Life Orb

Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Hone Claws
- Dynamic Punch
- Aqua Tail
- Iron Tail

HONE CLAWS --- the set wouldn't work without it! =D
DYNAMIC PUNCH --- gets slightly better accuracy with hone claws
AQUA TAIL --- accuracy boost from hone claws
IRON TAIL --- accuracy boost from hone claws

i would use STAB but this thing has horrid stats, and neutral hits aren't very likely to KO just about... anything.

Answer 4

Gen 3

Sub Salac Reversal

Furret @ Salac Berry
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature

• Substitute
• Shadow Ball
• Reversal
• Double-Edge / Return

Substitute helps to scout for opponent's moves while also protecting from status. Shadow Ball is Physical in Gen 3, so it is good and acts as Ghost coverage. Reversal at 1% of HP has 200 BP, meaning you even annihilate bulky rock-types as well as steel-types. Double Edge and Return are STAB, the latter is preferred because recoil + Substitute wears Furret quickly. Adamant Nature is preferred because it's already having Salac Berry to boost Spe and its Atk is lesser than its Spe. Salac Berry allows it to outsped faster Pokemon when it's at low HP, giving a +1 Spe boost.

Comments

This gets approval from Furret (me). I like it! :D

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Thanks, and it's great to hear that from Furret XD

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lol yea ^^

Answer 5

X/Y Moveset

Furret (F) @ Choice Band
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sucker Punch
- Giga Impact
- Brick Break
- U-turn

• Sucker Punch: Helps Furret to contend with Ghost and Psychic types.
• Giga Impact: With a choice band it hits like a truck, often removes that big threat in one hit.
• Brick Break: Hit steel/rock/ice types hard particularly Steel and Rock who resist Normal type attacks.
• U-turn: Not essential really but since Furret lacks any Flying type moves U-turn lets Furret switch out. (If you run the Frisk Trait you could set Trick instead of U-turn)

Answer 6

Furret @ Choice Band
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Pursuit
- Thunder Punch
- Ice Punch
- Return / Slash

Pursuit is great for fleeing opponents. Thunder and Ice Punch together make the BoltBeam combo. Return is strong STAB, or use Slash for the high crit chance.

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Comments

Ya’ll are stupid why frisk why it’s literally useless at least keen eye has something for it preventing accuracy loss

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Frisk is nice for seeing if their Choiced or using Assault Vest to see if their Special Attackers are safe to kill them. At least that's what I think it does.

Answer 7

Role: Special Sweeper

Furret (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
- Hyper Voice
- Hidden Power [Flying]

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Bolt Beam provides great coverage,
Hyper Voice Is nice STAB
And of Course, HP Flying is Super Effective on Fighting, Bug, And Grass. For Extra Super Effective Coverage.

Which of Course, Being Super effective, is what it takes for Furret to do damage.

Comments

tsk tsk 45 sp.atk that tops 207

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As I always say, Life orb makes everything better.
Maybe not good, but still Better.

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furret cant take a hit with life orb well thats a suicide sweeper then

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Thats why he's called, a " Sweeper " Hyper Voice having 90 Base Power, along with STAB + Life Orb, Can OHKO in the NU Tier.

And a " Suicide Sweeper " is a sweeper that kills itself with Recoil moves such as Flare Blitz and Head Smash.

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Furret's Special Attack is a lot worse than Attack, so use Thunderpunch instead.

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This really smart because even though it’s attack is more than it’s special attack but the moves in this moveset are much stronger than it’s physical counterparts just like nidoking

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Not exactly. Powerful moves won’t do much if your Special Attack stinks. It’s really the item and STAB that helps a lot, plus the Special Attack investment.

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Why don't you just run a physical set though? 45 special attack is really bad, even in NU.
@like cheese The moves are NOT stronger than the physical version, the physical version in fact hits harder.

Answer 8

Double/Triple Battle

Furret (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Helping Hand
- Swagger
- Super Fang
- Follow Me / Cut

I'd just use Helping Hand to help out your team. Swagger is used with Own Tempo Pokemon. Super Fang can weaken a Pokemon for a finishing hit by an ally. Follow Me allows you to protect your teammates, having a useless Pokemon be taken down. Cut can also be used because it is awesome.

Answer 9

This is for a double team. I am just learning how to build a double team. So this could suck.

Furret @ Flame Orb / Toxic Orb
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
- Trick
- Follow Me
- Knock Off
- Super Fang

Trick is to switch the opponents item.
Then you use knock off for when you don't want to use trick.
Then super fang to cut the opponents HP in half.
Then finally use follow me so another Pokemon finishes up.

Answer 10

Furret @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Trick
- Return
- U-turn
- Knock Off

This set gives opponents the Choice item, which makes them locked in to one move. Then it has U-turn and Knock Off to keep the set up. But this set is quite hard to uphold, since Furret's stats are less than whelming.

Answer 11

Furret @ Life Orb / Focus Sash
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Strength
- Sucker Punch / Shadow Claw
- U-turn
- Coil

• Strength (STAB)
• Sucker Punch (Priority) / Shadow Claw (High-Crit Chance)
• U-Turn (Switches out Furret)
• Coil (+1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 Acc)

Answer 12

Alright so this thing now has access to Tidy Up which . . wow!! What a move

So I present the extremely definitely viable SV sleeper setup sweeper

Furret @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Keen Eye / Frisk
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Tidy Up
- Knock Off / Shadow Claw
- U-turn
- Double-Edge

• Tidy Up (Because Of Course)
• Knock Off / Shadow Claw (but I think knock off is better)

Answer 13

Furret (M) @ Iapapa Berry / Grassy Seed
Ability: Frisk
Level: 50
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Ghost / Poison
EVs: 196 HP / 116 Def / 188 SpD / 4 Spe
Careful / Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 SpA
- Super Fang
- Follow Me
- Tidy Up / Coil
- Protect

You can support the build with a Fake Out user like Hands or Rillaboom (preferably if you end up with Grassy Seed) so Furret can set up one Coil and be at +2 def right away. And by using Coil instead of Tidy Up you ensure that Super Fang always connects. The 0 IV in attack are like that to receive less damage from Foul Play. Finally, the tera type I ended up using Poison because of the amount of fairy attacks in the current meta and you still resist fighting. (SV) This build is mainly to spam super fang at bulky Pokémon like Cress or Heatran and redirect moves with Follow Me. with the set up shown, it can't be OHKO'd by any physical attacks (you can ensure the survival with Knock Off from the pther mon to remove items like Choice Band / Specs)

Answer 14

This little dude now has Tidy Up, shall we make use of it?

Gen 9 PU

I can walk (Furret) @ Life Orb
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 252 Spe / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Tera: Fairy
Nature: Jolly (Spe+ SpA-)
- Tidy Up
- Body Slam / Double-Edge
- U-Turn
- Play Rough
Frisk so you can be prepared for what tricks the opponents have up their sleeves. Fairy Tera for coverage and STAB with Play Rough. Jolly to become even faster and possibly sweep. Tidy Up because this thing is GOOD with it (and gives +Spe and +Atk). Body Slam for STAB with possible paralysis or Double-Edge for STAB but with some damage taken (I prefer Body Slam). U-Turn to safely get out of sticky situations with doing some chip damage. Play Rough for Fighting coverage and STAB when Tera.

Hope I helped! :3

Comments

Why have Tidy Up and U-Turn?

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"U-Turn to safely get out of sticky situations" No idea what sticky situations are in this scenario, I don't play Gen 9 PU.

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"U-Turn to safely get out of sticky situations" I assume it's about being able to switch out against Pokemon it cannot beat, even with Tidy Up boosts.

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maybe consider focus sash since it is quite frail, even by pu standards. since i have some minor experience with gen 9 pu, log onto showdown sometime soon, i can demonstrate the pu meta in action.

Answer 15

I decided to do a sentret because idk :P no suggested movesets for it yet

Sentret @ Eviolite
Ability: Frisk
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Surf
- U-turn
- Thunder Punch
- Shadow Claw

• Surf (coverage)
• U-turn (who doesnt love u-turn?)
• Thunder Punch (coverage)
• Shadow Claw (coverage)

coverage

Comments

Sentret has no moveset here because it's just really bad. Also you don't even have a STAB move, and you have Surf despite being Adamant natured.

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Ever heard of LC? Sure, it might be bad there, but Furret also sucks in ZU.