Hisuian Lilligant Movesets & Competitive Sets

Hisuian Lilligant serves as a solid setup sweeper for Fighting teams thanks to its signature move, Victory Dance, which enables it to easily set up and clean through types like Water and Ground. Leaf Blade slashes through Water- and Ground-types like Primarina, Swampert, and Great Tusk. Close Combat is Hisuian Lilligant's strongest move, muscling past Scizor and Iron Hands. Finally, Ice Spinner nails the Flying- and Grass-types that handle Hisuian Lilligant's STAB moves, such as the Landorus Formes, Amoonguss, and Sinistcha. Wide Lens is used to help offset Hustle's accuracy reduction. Keldeo and Urshifu-R serve as excellent partners for Hisuian Lilligant by checking Fire-types such as Ceruledge and Moltres while appreciating Hisuian Lilligant checking Water-types like Primarina and Rotom-Wash that can deal with them. Keldeo can further support Hisuian Lilligant by breaking through physical walls such as Iron Defense Skarmory and Pecharunt. Assault Vest Iron Hands can handle faster special attackers such as Choice Scarf Enamorus and Gholdengo while pressuring Pelipper with Thunder Punch. Threats such as Choice Scarf Greninja and Latias are checked by Assault Vest Gallade, which can also use Psycho Cut to slice through Poison-types such as Iron Moth and Okidogi. Great Tusk's Stealth Rock support wears down Ogerpon-H and Choice Scarf Enamorus, and its Knock Off removes Rocky Helmet from threats like Skarmory and Toxapex. Iron Valiant can pressure Flying-types like Gyarados and Moltres with Thunderbolt or use Shadow Ball to pressure Ghost-types like Gholdengo and Pecharunt, while Choice Scarf Sneasler can deal with faster Fairy-types like Flutter Mane and Iron Valiant with Dire Claw.

Hisuian Lilligant serves as a strong wincon for Grass teams thanks to its solid Fighting typing and strong setup option in Victory Dance, which enables it to outspeed and remove problematic threats such Tornadus-T, Dragapult, and Choice Specs Flutter Mane. Close Combat tears through Steel- and Ice-types like Heatran, Bisharp, Mamoswine, and Frosmoth. Ice Spinner provides solid coverage against Flying- and Dragon-types such as the Landorus formes, Dragonite, and Dragapult as well as Grass-types capable of taking its STAB moves like Amoonguss and Sinistcha. Finally Sleep Powder can prevent would-be checks like Galarian Weezing and Okidogi from handling Hisuian Lilligant if it hasn't gotten a Victory Dance yet, while Leaf Blade enables it to break foes like Primarina, Slowbro, and Toxapex, which wall its combination of Close Combat and Ice Spinner. Wide Lens is used to help offset the accuracy lowering of Hustle along with helping Sleep Powder land. Choice Scarf Meowscarada provides immediate speed control that enables it to handle Psychic- and Ghost-types such as Galarian Slowking, Latios, and Hisuian Zoroark along with using Knock Off to remove Rocky Helmet from the likes of Skarmory and Forretress. Ogerpon-C can help by removing Fire- and Flying-types that could handle Hisuian Lilligant like Volcarona, Moltres, and Zapdos. Alternatively, Ogerpon-H helps to pressure Ice- and Steel-types like Alolan Ninetales, Archaludon, and Gholdengo along with checking threats like Galarian Weezing. Amoonguss pressures Fairy-types such as Iron Valiant, Choice Scarf Enamorus, and Flutter Mane with Sludge Bomb, and it can use Stun Spore to slow down Choice Scarf threats like Dragapult and Greninja, which outspeed and remove a boosted Hisuian Lilligant. Sinistcha can help to handle physical walls like Galarian Weezing and Hatterene with its powerful Shadow Ball. Brambleghast can help Hisuian Lilligant by setting and removing Spikes, enabling it to wear down would-be checks like Iron Moth and Iron Hands. Brambleghast can also wall Tornadus-T and Zapdos thanks to Wind Rider while being able to remove Ghost-types like Gholdengo with Poltergeist. Hydrapple possesses a nice Fire neutrality, which enables it to check foes like Choice Scarf Hisuian Arcanine and Iron Moth prior to Hisuian Lilligant setting up, and its powerful Special Attacks helps it break physical walls like Sableye and Mandibuzz.

With Close Combat and Victory Dance, Hisuian Lilligant is a powerful wallbreaker on Grass teams, covering the difficult Flying, Dragon, and Steel matchups. Close Combat nails bulky Steel-types like Hisuian Goodra and Heatran. Leaf Blade is a reliable secondary STAB move that can break Toxapex and offensive Gholdengo while also dealing with Gastrodon, Rotom-W, and Slowbro; however, Sleep Powder can be used instead to facilitate setting up with Victory Dance. Hustle-boosted Ice Spinner takes out Dragon-, Ground-, and Flying-types like Garchomp, Landorus, Dragonite, Mega Aerodactyl, and Zapdos after a Victory Dance. At +1, All Out-Pummeling can reliably KO tanks like Celesteela, Corviknight, and Iron Hands and, thanks to the Hustle boost, Fighting-resistant foes like Volcarona and Mega Charizard Y while ignoring the accuracy drop. Meowscarada is a perfect teammate that appreciates Hisuian Lilligant's removal of walls like Ferrothorn and Archaludon that switch into it. Meowscarada in return threatens Ghost- and Psychic-types like Gholdengo, Latios, and Latias, which Hisuian Lilligant can't touch. Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn are defensive partners that deal with Fairy- and Poison-types like Tapu Lele and Sneasler while wearing down teams with Leech Seed and entry hazards, respectively. Ogerpon-C threatens Flying- and Fire-types like Moltres and Torkoal while benefiting from the removal of Steel-types. Whimsicott is a great support ally that removes hazards and can use Encore to give Lilligant more chances to set up. Brambleghast is another hazard removal option and spinblocker that can defend against Zapdos and Tornadus-T's Hurricane and Heat Wave with Wind Rider while providing crucial Spikes support.