Shadow Dusknoir

Poor Dusknoir, not even a Shadow forme can save you. Even Cofagrigus out-damages you, you poor, poor ghost.

Best PvE Offensive Moveset

• Hex beats Astonish.

• Ominous Wind’s STAB is compensated by Dark Pulse’s better parameters, but Shadow Ball* is the top pick.

• Psychic has no offensive use on Dusknoir, and Poltergeist is a step down.

Best PvE Defensive Moveset

• Hex is again the better fast move.

• Psychic is a great option with good power and 2 bars, but it leaves Dusknoir easily picked off by Dark Types.

• Shadow Punch and Dark Pulse are also great options.

  Ominous Wind falls behind.

• Poltergeist takes too long to charge to be generally worth considering.

Hex charges fairly well, and is the best option for Dusknoir.

Ominous Wind is not a strong move, but it does have a small chance of granting a stat-boost on use. Psychic, meanwhile, is definitely a good move that can allow Dusknoir to threaten Fighting Types in particular. However, it doesn't do much against Dusknoir's counters..

The same basic set, but adds Dark Pulse (80 Power/50 Energy) instead. Dark Pulse is a genuinely better move than Psychic, but its coverage profile is so close to Ghost that it may as well be a mono-Ghost set.