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Ok well at first glance I'm sure this little worm must look pretty useless right? Well for the most part that's true however, it ability is awesome and can be very useful.

Let's start off with it base stats:
HP - 100
Atk - 70
Def - 70
SpA - 65
SpD - 65
Spe - 45

Now looking at these stats the only decent one is HP, everything else is really just horrible. Now what could be so useful about a pokemon with such horrible stats? Its ability Serene Grace, which doubles the secondary effect of moves, making it ultra hax.

Now unlike other pokemon with this ability, Dunsparce has the best movepool that allows it to fully abuse its hax power. Let's look at what I find to be its most useful moveset:

~ Ancient Power/Thunder Wave 20% raise all stats/100% paralyze
~ Headbutt 60% flinch+Stab
~ Bite - 60% flinch
~ Ice Beam - 20% freeze

This one is pretty straight forward, hax abuse at its best. With such a horrible speed stat slowing down your opponent is a must. With Thunder Wave you pretty much remove that problem.
Ancient Power is useful if you want to boost all your stats, with only a 20% of it happening some might not want to even bother with it.
Headbutt is one of your best moves, stab plus a 60% flinch rate. This can really annoy your opponent and if you're really lucky you can hax your way to victory.
Bite is mainly for coverage, like for those Ghost types that are immune to your headbutts.
Ice Beam can come in handy for both coverage and hax, freezing a poke can really mess up your opponent.

Now after all this Dunsparce still can't compete too well in OU or even UU, so its bumped down to NU. However there is a team mate that greatly increases its usefulness.



Ninjask and Dunsparce make such a wonderful combo on a team. With Ninjask's Speed Boost ability and it access to Swords Dance and Baton Pass, it can really give Dunsparce the boost it desperately needs.

If you're going with this combo its best to train your Dunsparce in defenses and HP. That way once it gets passed into the battle, it'll hopefully survive the hit. Unless you're confident in your ability to predict your opponent then pass when you feel is best.

Well I think I've pretty much covered everything I need to for this, hope you found it useful.

Happy New Years!

~LF

Good job LF! ^.^ I caught a dunsparce in SS a in the first cave, and kept it on my pokewalker ever since xd got to like... lvl 40 by the end of the game I think. but never learned any moves, haha.





the only thing I have to add is... not only does thunder wave paralyze the opponent so you can outspeed them.

it also makes them unable to move 33% of the time.

and the other 67% of the time they only have a 40% chance of taking an action.

so your opponent will spend most of their turns unable to act. 3nodding

Yay, Dunsparce for the win. IMO it's sort of like a Togekiss for people that like using more creative pokemon, I admire your moveset abilities.