Greninja

How to use Greninja in Champions

Greninja fills a fast special attacker niche on Champions ranked teams. With a 66-stat-point budget (max 32 per stat), most builds pour 32 into Sp. Attack and its best defensive stat, then fine-tune Speed in steps of 2 to sit just above or below the metagame's common numbers.

Defensively it is hurt hardest by Electric, Grass, Fighting, Bug, Fairy, while resisting Fire, Water, Ice, Ghost. Check the Water page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Greninja can learn 60 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: bug dark fighting flying ghost grass ground ice normal poison psychic rock water. Pick four that patch your team's coverage gaps — the team builder flags what's missing automatically.

Full move list

Move	Type	Class	Power	Acc
Acrobatics	flying	Physical	55	100
Aerial Ace	flying	Physical	60	101
Blizzard	ice	Special	110	70
Bounce	flying	Physical	85	85
Brick Break	fighting	Physical	75	100
Brutal Swing	dark	Physical	60	100
Chilling Water	water	Special	50	100
Dark Pulse	dark	Special	80	100
Dig	ground	Physical	80	100
Dive	water	Physical	80	100
Double Team	normal	Status	—	101
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Extrasensory	psychic	Special	80	100
Facade	normal	Physical	70	100
Flip Turn	water	Physical	60	100
Giga Impact	normal	Physical	150	90
Gunk Shot	poison	Physical	120	80
Haze	ice	Status	—	101
Helping Hand	normal	Status	—	101
Hydro Cannon	water	Special	150	90
Hydro Pump	water	Special	110	80
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Ice Beam	ice	Special	90	100
Ice Punch	ice	Physical	75	100
Icy Wind	ice	Special	55	95
Liquidation	water	Physical	85	100
Low Sweep	fighting	Physical	65	100
Mud Shot	ground	Special	55	95
Mud-Slap	ground	Special	20	100
Night Slash	dark	Physical	70	100
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Quick Attack	normal	Physical	40	100
Rain Dance	water	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Rock Slide	rock	Physical	75	90
Rock Tomb	rock	Physical	60	95
Role Play	psychic	Status	—	101
Round	normal	Special	60	100
Shadow Sneak	ghost	Physical	40	100
Skitter Smack	bug	Physical	70	90
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Sludge Wave	poison	Special	95	100
Smack Down	rock	Physical	50	100
Snore	normal	Special	50	100
Snowscape	ice	Status	—	101
Spikes	ground	Status	—	101
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Surf	water	Special	90	100
Switcheroo	dark	Status	—	100
Swords Dance	normal	Status	—	101
Taunt	dark	Status	—	100
Thief	dark	Physical	60	100
Toxic Spikes	poison	Status	—	101
Trailblaze	grass	Physical	50	100
U-turn	bug	Physical	70	100
Upper Hand	fighting	Physical	65	100
Water Pulse	water	Special	60	100
Water Shuriken	water	Special	15	100
Waterfall	water	Physical	80	100
Weather Ball	normal	Special	50	100

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