Best Dragapult ability for competitive?

Feb. 23, 2020

I can’t decide if it’s infiltrator or Cursed Body! They both seem useful but with it’s low defence is cursed body really that useful?

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Let’s construct this answer with what several users have given us.

You could use any of them effectively. Personally I prefer Infiltrator, as mine is a Choice Specs set and it is helpful to break things with Substitute. If you’re running a physical set, run Clear Body to nullify Intimidate. If you’re afraid for some reason of being hit by Mystical Fire as a Special Attacker (though such an instance should be rare), Clear Body could help in such a scenario.

I sort of agree with you that Cursed Body could also be situationally useful, but I find it less reliable because anything that can hit Dragapult for super-effective damage usually does such severe damage that it’ll knock it out before the ability kicks in. Molthree also gives an excellent point that many defensive Dragapults run a more reliable disruption in Disable anyway.