Giratina (Altered Forme)

Oh Giratina, why don't you go back to the Distortion World where you have decent stats and a good moveset? Giratina-A's moveset and stats are not designed for PVE play. It can make an efficient gym cleaner thanks to Shadow Claw and Dragon Breath both being easy to dodge with and sporting fantastic neutral coverage combined with a set of 3-bar moves, but even then its low attack stat and weak charged moves mean that it's a bit slow in that regard. Tough luck.

On the Halloween Event of 2022, Giratina received its signature move, Shadow Force. The move comes with rather generous PvE parameters and actually makes Giratina-A not a terrible Ghost attacker. The catch? Its Origin forme also came with the same attack and is far superior at the role.

Best PvE Offensive Moveset

• Shadow Claw is Giratina’s best fast move for neutral damage.
• Dragon Breath is only useful when fighting against Dragon, Normal, or Dark-type Pokemon.
• Shadow Force* is Giratina's signature move and is an excellent charged move
• Dragon Claw is essentially Giratina’s only other charged move.
• Ancient Power and Shadow Sneak are so weak that they’re inferior even when effective.

Shadow Claw has good damage with great energy gain. Dragon Breath can also be viable for its superior damage output, but results in less usage of Giratina's charge moves. Generally speaking, Shadow Claw is preferred in the Master League, but both Fast Attacks are viable in the Ultra League.

Dragon Claw costs the least amount of energy, gets STAB, and can be used very frequently. Shadow Sneak is pitiful, but offers consistent Ghost coverage to pressure most Dragon resists. Ancient Power can offer coverage against some Ice-type Pokemon and certain other threats such as Yveltal and Togekiss. Shadow Force, Giratina's signature move, is intentionally given horrendous PvP parameters for balance reasons, but is a viable alternative as a closing nuke and is more effective than Shadow Sneak at beating tanky Pokemon.