Best Meowscarada Build

Discover the best Meowscarada builds for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, focusing on Grass and Dark Tera types. Optimize your Meowscarada with the right moveset, nature, and held item for battle.

This guide details two effective builds for Meowscarada in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: a Grass Tera build and a Dark Tera build. Both focus on maximizing physical attack and speed, utilizing specific natures, abilities, movesets, and held items.

Best Meowscarada Grass Build

This build focuses on maximizing Grass-type damage and physical attack power.

Stats and Items

• Tera Type: Grass
• Nature: Jolly (increases Speed) or Adamant (increases Physical Attack). Both decrease Special Attack. Nature Mints can be used to change nature.
• EV Focus: Physical Attack and Speed
• Ability: Overgrow
• Held Item: Miracle Seed (boosts Grass-type moves by 20%). Found at Delibird Presents in Mesagoza.

Moveset

• Flower Trick: Meowscarada's signature move. A powerful Grass-type physical attack that always hits and always results in a critical hit (unless the target has Battle Armor or Shell Armor). Learns upon evolution from Floragato.
• Grassy Terrain: Creates a terrain that boosts Grass-type moves by 50% for 5 turns, further enhancing Flower Trick's damage.
• Knock Off: A Dark-type move (learned at level 52) that makes the target's held item unusable for the rest of the battle. Useful against Pokémon with stat-boosting items.
• Play Rough: A Fairy-type damaging move (learned at level 47) that deals double damage to Fighting, Dark, and Dragon-type Pokémon. Useful for countering Dragon-types, which resist Grass moves.

Best Meowscarada Dark Build

This build leverages the Dark Tera type and the Protean ability for versatile offensive pressure.

Stats and Items

• Tera Type: Dark
• Nature: Jolly or Adamant (same reasoning as Grass build).
• EV Focus: Attack and Speed
• Ability: Protean (hidden ability). Changes Meowscarada's type to match the move it uses, once per switch-in. This allows for type-based defensive switching. Requires an Ability Patch (from 6-Star Tera Raids).
• Held Item: Life Orb (boosts damaging moves by 30%). Found at Delibird Presents in Mesagoza.

Moveset

• Flower Trick: Still a primary damaging move.
• Night Slash: A Dark-type physical move (learned at level 38) with a high critical hit ratio. Both Flower Trick and Night Slash benefit from Life Orb.
• Knock Off: Retained for utility.
• Play Rough: Retained for coverage.
• Hone Claws: An alternative to Knock Off for maximizing offensive pressure. Raises Attack and Accuracy by one stage (learned at level 10).

Changing Tera type requires a Dark Tera Shard.