Pokémon: 10 Most Underrated Moves

If you’re the type of Pokémon player that tends to only favor the obvious power moves, some of these overlooked gems are worth considering.

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With over 800 known moves for Pokémon to use, there are going to be more than a few that go unnoticed and underused. And with only four move slots available for each Pokémon, sometimes the more eye-catching moves get put into the repertoire when there are others that could be just as or even more effective.

With so many moves and strategies at the trainer’s disposal, it might be worth trying out some underrated moves as other trainers might not be aware of how powerful or effective they can be. If a trainer does choose to adopt some of these under-the-radar moves, they can become a force to be reckoned with.

10 Future Sight Is A Delayed Damage-Dealing Move That’s Worth Looking Into

Future Sight is a Psychic-Type move that can seem pretty underwhelming. All that happens when a Pokémon uses it is that the user has foreseen an attack. It’s not until 2 turns later that Future Sight does damage to the target.

The move is based on the Special Attack of the user and the Special Defense of the target at the time the move was used, so even if the target is switched out, the amount of damage will be the same. Future Sight damage doesn’t have a type, so it can be used on Ghost Pokémon, and with a power of 120, it’s very underrated.

9 Attract Can Blunt Opponents By Way Of Infatuation

Attract causes a Pokémon to become infatuated with the user. An infatuated Pokémon cannot attack 50% of the time, and not just against the user but any other Pokémon in the user’s team, so it’s a good way to blunt an opponent.

It will only work on a Pokémon that is the opposite gender of the user, but even so it’s an underrated move that can give trainers a big advantage.

8 Nuzzle Is Not As Innocent As It Sounds

Nuzzle is like Stun Spore or Thunder Wave in that it paralyzes the target, but unlike those moves it also does damage. Nuzzle’s power is only 20, but with a 100% probability of paralyzing and 100% accuracy, it’s a good move to have in the arsenal.

Exclusive to Electric-Types, Plusle and Minun get Nuzzle at level 1. With how fast those Pokémon are they could paralyze an opponent and deal some damage to turn a battle in their favor from the beginning.

7 Metal Burst Deals Back Damage To Make Opponents Think Twice About Attacking

Metal Burst is a Steel-Type move that does 1.5 times the amount of damage dealt by the opponent’s last attack. It’s similar to Counter and Mirror Coat but it doesn’t have the specific requirements that those moves have in order to hit, and it also doesn’t have negative priority.

A decent move that will make opponents think twice about their strategy. Bisharp, Alolan Sandslash, Wormadom, Perrserka, and Zamazenta all have Metal Burst at level 1.

6 Acrobatics Is Very Powerful If The User Isn’t Holding An Item

Acrobatics is a Flying-Type move that has a power of 55, but that doubles to 110 if the user has no held item. If the user is holding a Flying Gem, which increases the power of Flying-Type moves by 50%, Acrobatics will be counted as the user not holding an item as they’ll consume it before the move is used.

While a number of Pokémon of a range of types can learn Acrobatics, Inteleon is the only one to have it from the outset.

5 Skill Swap Turns The Tables By Switching Abilities

Skill Swap is a Psychic-Type move that works just how it sounds; it switches the Abilities of the user and the target. Skill Swap always hits unless the opponent is in the middle of a move like Dig or Fly. The move can be used to swap all but a dozen or so Abilities and is obviously at its best when the Pokémon using it has a weak or somewhat useless Ability, like Truant.

The earliest a Pokémon learns Skill Swap without being taught is level 25, when Sylveon (level 40 in gen VIII) and Hoopa learn the move, but it is also a TM that many Pokémon can learn.

4 Fire Pokémon Should Fear Vivillon’s Powder

Vivillon’s signature move, Powder covers the target in powder. Its priority of +1 means it goes first unless the opponent also uses a move with increased priority. Particularly effective against Fire-Types, if the target tries to use a Fire-Type move covered in Vivillon’s powder, it will take damage up to 25% of its maximum HP, and the move will not work.

Although it’s Vivillon’s signature move, Cutiefly can learn Powder through breeding or when transferred from another generation.

3 Fury Cutter Can Do Massive Damage If It Hits Consecutively

Fury Cutter’s base power is 10, but if it’s used consecutively, its power can rise to 160, making it extremely powerful. Its accuracy is 95%, and if it misses its power will reset, but it’s still likely to hit enough times to deal a good amount of damage.

Used mostly by Bug Pokémon but not exclusive to them, Fury Cutter can also be taught as a TM. In gen VIII, Alolan Sandslash, Scizor, and Sirfetch’d are some of the notable Pokémon who have this move from level 1.

2 Hex Adds Insult To Injury To Pokémon With A Status Condition

Hex is a Ghost-Type move that has a base power of 65. That’s already pretty powerful, but the move doubles if the target has a non-volatile status condition, which is any status condition that continues outside of battle or after a Pokémon is switched out, such as Burn, Freeze, Poison, and so on.

Chandelure has Hex from level 1 across all generations, so it can use Smog to poison its opponent then deal out heavy damage with Hex.

1 Acid Spray Is A Multipurpose Move That Can Make Battles A Breeze

Acid Spray inflicts 40 damage, which might not seem like much, but it also reduces the target’s Special Defense by 2 stages, with a 100% chance of doing so.

So if a Pokémon uses Amnesia to raise their Special Defense, Acid Spray can negate the status change while inflicting damage at the same time, effectively meaning the opponent wasted a turn and lost HP in the process. Both forms of Toxtricity know Acid Spray at level 1, so the Punk Pokémon could use it before following up with a Special Attack like Belch to gain a huge advantage.

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