Pokemon Coverage Calculator
Test any 2-move, 3-move, or 4-move attacking moveset against all 18 elemental types in real time. Our Pokemon Coverage Calculator reveals your super-effective ceiling and exposes hidden defensive walls that resist your sweeper.
💡 VGC Moveslot Tip: In VGC Doubles, almost every non-Choice attacker reserves Move Slot 4 for Protect and often Move Slot 3 for setup or speed control (Swords Dance, Calm Mind, Tailwind). Set Slot 3 and Slot 4 to Empty in the Pokemon Coverage Calculator to test two-attack efficiency!
Why Two-Move and Three-Move Efficiency Matters More Than 4 Attacks
Beginning players often fill all four moveslots on a sweeper with overlapping attacks (such as Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Solar Beam, and Dragon Pulse), only to get completely walled when an opponent switches in a Heatran or Azumarill. Furthermore, competitive attackers rarely have the luxury of running four offensive moves: in VGC Doubles, Protect is mandatory on nearly every non-Choice-locked slot, while in Smogon Singles, sweepers need a slot for Swords Dance, Nasty Plot, Dragon Dance, or Roost.
That is why tournament players use our Pokemon Coverage Calculator to compress maximum neutral and super-effective reach into just two or three attacking slots:
- Start With Your Primary STAB Move: Because Same-Type Attack Bonus grants a free 1.5x multiplier (making a neutral 1x STAB hit deal 1.5x base damage, vs 2.0x for a non-STAB super-effective move), your primary move should almost always match your creature's highest-base-power STAB type.
- Target Your Primary Move's Resistors with Slot 2: Check which types resist or are immune to Move Slot 1 using our Pokemon Type Calculator, then choose a second attacking type that hits those exact resistors for 2x super-effective damage.
- Audit Dual-Type Meta Walls: After achieving 18/18 single-type unresisted coverage in the Pokemon Coverage Calculator, consider whether common dual-type walls (like Corviknight's Steel/Flying or Toxapex's Water/Poison) resist both moves.
The 6 Best 2-Move Offensive Coverage Pairs in Competitive History
Over nine generations of competitive play, six legendary two-move offensive pairings have stood the test of time. You can load and compare these exact combos in our Pokemon Coverage Calculator:
| Combo Name & Types | Signature Move Pairing | Single-Types Hit Super-Effectively | Types Resisting Both Moves | Famous Competitive Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost + Fighting | Shadow Ball / Rage Fist + Close Combat / Aura Sphere | 7 / 18 Types (Normal, Ice, Rock, Dark, Steel, Psychic, Ghost) | 0 Single Types! (Only Normal/Ghost dual type is immune) | Annihilape, Marshadow, Gholdengo (with Focus Blast), Flutter Mane |
| Ground + Ice (Mamo Combo) | Earthquake / Earth Power + Ice Beam / Icicle Crash | 9 / 18 Types! (Half the entire type chart!) | 0 Single Types (Only Bug/Water, Ice/Water, or Levitate Bronzong resist) | Mamoswine, Nidoking, Kyurem, Great Tusk (with Ice Spinner) |
| Electric + Ice (BoltBeam) | Thunderbolt + Ice Beam | 6 / 18 Types (Water, Flying, Grass, Ground, Dragon) | 0 Single Types (Only Magnezone, Lanturn, Thick Fat Mamoswine resist) | Miraidon, Regieleki (Tera Ice), Porygon-Z, Starmie, Mewtwo |
| Ground + Rock (EdgeQuake) | Earthquake + Stone Edge / Rock Slide | 8 / 18 Types (Fire, Elec, Poison, Rock, Steel, Ice, Fly, Bug) | 0 Single Types (Only Grass/Ground, Fighting/Ground, Flygon resist) | Garchomp, Landorus-T, Tyranitar, Excadrill, Great Tusk |
| Fairy + Ground | Moonblast / Play Rough + Earth Power / Earthquake | 8 / 18 Types (Fight, Dragon, Dark, Fire, Elec, Poison, Rock, Steel) | 0 Single Types (Only Flying/Fire, Flying/Poison, Flying/Steel resist) | Enamorus, Ursaluna-Bloodmoon (Moonblast), Zacian (High Horsepower) |
| Water + Freeze-Dry | Hydro Pump / Surf + Freeze-Dry (Special Ice) | 8 / 18 Types (Includes Water via Freeze-Dry override!) | 0 Single Types (Virtually unwallable in Gen 9) | Iron Bundle, Lapras, Walking Wake, Kyogre |
Look closely at Ground + Ice and Fairy + Ground in the table above: Ground is famous for smashing Steel, Fire, and Poison—the exact three types that resist Fairy and Ice! Meanwhile, Ice and Fairy annihilate Flying, Grass, and Dragon—the exact types that block or resist Ground. Once you pick your ideal two-move or three-move core in the Pokemon Coverage Calculator, verify whether your attack scores a guaranteed OHKO in our Pokemon Damage Calculator.
How Tera Blast Solves "Four-Moveslot Syndrome" (4MSS) in Gen 9
Before Generation 9, many elite Electric, Ghost, and Dragon sweepers suffered from severe Four-Moveslot Syndrome because their natural movepool lacked a high-base-power secondary coverage move (forcing Regieleki or Spectrier to spam a single attacking type). Today, equipping Tera Blast with a strategic Tera Type lets any creature invent its missing coverage piece:
- Electric Sweeper + Tera Ice (Instant BoltBeam): Give an Electric attacker like Miraidon, Raikou, or Jolteon Tera Ice + Tera Blast. The moment a Ground-type switch-in like Landorus-T or Garchomp hits the field to block Thunderbolt, Terastallizing into Ice flips your blocked move into a 4x super-effective OHKO!
- Steel/Ghost Sweeper + Tera Fighting or Ground: Pairing Ghost STAB with Tera Fighting Tera Blast grants instant unresisted coverage against Dark and Normal checks. Audit how that Tera shift affects your full six-slot defense using our Pokemon Team Builder.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Pokemon Coverage Calculator
In competitive high-ladder play, avoiding resisted hits (achieving 18/18 unresisted neutral + super-effective coverage) is much more important than chasing raw 2x count. Why? Because a boosted 1x STAB attack from a high-attack sweeper still 2HKOs most targets, whereas getting walled at 0.5x or 0x forces you to switch out and lose momentum.
Combining Ground + Ice + Fighting + Electric (or Ghost/Flying) hits 14 to 15 out of the 18 elemental types for 2x super-effective damage! Load our 4-Move All-Out Attacker preset at the top of the Pokemon Coverage Calculator to inspect it live.
Running two moves of the same type is frequently optimal when one is a high-power nuke or spread move and the other is a utility, priority, or accuracy-safe option—for example, running both Draco Meteor and Dragon Pulse, or Close Combat alongside priority Mach Punch, or spread Make It Rain alongside single-target Flash Cannon.
Normal is the only elemental type in the game that hits 0 out of 18 types for 2x super-effective damage while being resisted by Rock and Steel and immune to Ghost. Normal moves are only used when backed by massive STAB + ability multipliers (like Dragonite's Tera Normal Extreme Speed or Ursaluna-Bloodmoon's 140 BP Blood Moon).
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