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Although there have been many early-game butterflies before Vivillon, it is designed to perfect this usually terrible archetype. Vivillon has pretty terrible stats, but it gets a bunch of useful tools. As a butterfly-like Pokemon, it can use Quiver Dance to boost its Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed at the same time. It also gets the handy Compound Eyes and Hurricane combination, which increases the accuracy of Hurricane enough to make it a reliable attack. Alas, it is still held back by the same weaknesses as other Bug Pokemon of its kind. It has terrible defensive stats, so it has trouble switching in and is very vulnerable to getting revenge killed while sweeping. Its Bug/Flying type is highly exploitable, and leaves it with a terrible 4x weakness to Stealth Rock. It also lacks power, since as strong as Hurricane is, it can still be walled due to Vivillon's average Special Attack. | |||
The hardest part about using Vivillon is pulling off the first Quiver Dance. Vivillon is extremely frail and has poor unboosted speed, so it is best brought in against Pokemon that fear Hurricane, such as most Grass-types. It's a good idea to give Vivillon a Focus Sash to ensure it survives long enough to pull off a boost. Vivillon also commonly carries Sleep Powder to incapacitate an opponent, using the free turn from the switch to set up a Quiver Dance. Once the Quiver Dance is up, all it has to do is fire off powerful Hurricanes. Energy Ball is a decent coverage move for Rock-types that Vivillon is extremely weak to, but unfortunately it lacks the movepool to deal with Steel-types, which resists both its STAB Hurricane and Energy Ball. | |||
==Litleo and Pyroar== | ==Litleo and Pyroar== | ||
