Mythical Pokemon are a big deal. There's a lot of lore surrounding them, they're some of the rarest Pokemon ever, and — what's most important for competitive players — they're often particularly powerful.
A large reason for their collective strength is their access to exclusive signature moves. Starting with Generation III, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all Mythical Pokemon came with one. Some of themꦚ have given their owners unique competitive niches, while others just prove to be more powerful than regular moves. These 15 in particular are the best of the best.
15 Judgment
Arceus's signature move is quite simple: it deals 100 base power at 100% accuracy. Its one quirk is changing its type depending on what plate Arceus is holding.
While most would consider attaching the respective type plate onto Arceus, some competitive players have forgone type plates in favorᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ of a regular held item, therefore utilizing Ju💃dgment as a very strong neutral-damage move. That said, some have also forgone the move altogether for regular moves with secondary effects.
14 Jungle Healing ♕
Zarude's signature is a healing move, a first for the franchise's line of Mythical Pokemon. While it doesn't heal as much HP as moves like Recover and Roost do at just 25% of the user's max HP, it also crucially gets rid of the user's status ailments.
With the prevalence of status ailments like burning and toxic poisoning, having this kind of move in its arsenal gives Zarude a nice niche🐼 to hold onto.
13 🍰 Secret Sword
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Good special Fighting-type moves are hard to come by, so having one as a signaꦑture move automatically gives you a pretty good competitive niche. That applies to Keldeo and its Secret Sword.
Secret Sword deals 85 base power's worth of damage at 100% accuracy, calculating damage output with the target's Defense stat rather than Special Defense. Paired with a 129 Special Attack, Secret Sword is a huge reason why Keldeo is a highly feared and sought-after special wallbreaker.
12 Techno Blast 𝄹
Genesect's Techno Blast is essentially a condensed, more powerful version of Judgment, offering fewer types of attack but packing more base power.
It carries 120 base power to Judgment's 100, while also carrying 100% accuracy and no other side effects. The type depends on the Drive held item given, between the Shock (Electric), Burn (Fire), Chill (Ice), and Douse Drives (Water). When no Drive is installed, Techno Blast is Normal-type.
11 𒈔 Doom Desire
While Jirachi is not necessarily a special attacker, its signature special move can deal massive damage in a vacuum. Doom Desire packs 🌠a spectaculꦉar 140 base power at 100% accuracy.
It's a Steel-type Future Sight, dealing damage after two turns. That has its pros and cons. It's great at catching unsuspecting opponents off-guard for tons of damage, but if an opponent has the smarts to switch in a check at the right time, it won't do much.
10 🍸 Plasma Fists
Zeraora is the only truly viable physical Electric-type out there, and that's largely thanks to its signature move. With other physical Electric-types having to rely on somewhat subpar moves like Wild Charge and Thunder Punch, having access to Plasma Fists makes Zeraora stand out.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:This physical move deals damage at 100 base power and 100% accuracy. For the remainder of the turn after use, all Normal-types become Electric-type, though that usually doesn't mean much in competitive Singles battles.
9 Fleur Cannon 🍌 💞
The Draco Meteor mold of Pokemon move is a tried-and-tested formula, with a variꦐant of the move being very commonly used by Dragon-types, Fire-type (Overheat), and Grass-types (Leaf Storm).
Magearna gets access to a Fairy-type variant, Fleur Cannon, which hails as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the strongest Fairy-type move by base power. Like its more widely-used contemporaries, it carries 130 base power and 90% accuracy and lowers the user's Special Attack two stages after use.
8 🐎 Steam Eruption
With Scald being one of the most popular and useful moves competitively, an upgraded version of it would be kind of a cheat code. Well, it's a cheat code only Volcanion has access to, and it's helped it carve out a pretty solid competitive niche.
Steam Eruption carries the same 30% chance to burn its target that made Scald so unique. Thing is, ღit does so at upgraded base power (110), with slightly lower accuracy as a trade-off (95%).
7 🐼 Searing Shot
Victini was blessed with two very powerful signature moves, and while Searღing Shot is a distinct n♎umber two in that pair, it still gets a considerable amount of usage competitively.
In its own right, 100 base power at 100% accuracy is hard to ignore by itself. Having a 30% chance to burn atop that is just gravy. With it having 100 in both its attacking stats, Searing Shot is the move of choice for Victini's special movesets.
6 🍨 Diamond Storm ꦿ
There's a lot going on with Diancie's signature move, and while it hasn't made Diancie that competitively viable — the Rock/Fairy-type just has too many flaws — it's one of the Generation VI's redeeming features.
In an otherwise shallow pool of good Rock-type attacks, Diamond Storm stands out for its great 100 base power and 95% accuracy. It has an incredible secondary effect of boosting the user's Defense by two stages 50% of the time.