Sinistcha

How to use Sinistcha in Champions

Sinistcha fills a 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 Fire, Ice, Flying, Ghost, Dark, while resisting Water, Electric, Grass, Ground. Check the Grass page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Sinistcha can learn 34 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: bug dark ghost grass normal psychic steel 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
Calm Mind	psychic	Status	—	101
Curse	ghost	Status	—	101
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Energy Ball	grass	Special	90	100
Foul Play	dark	Physical	95	100
Giga Drain	grass	Special	75	100
Grassy Terrain	grass	Status	—	101
Hex	ghost	Special	65	100
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Imprison	psychic	Status	—	101
Iron Defense	steel	Status	—	101
Leaf Storm	grass	Special	130	90
Life Dew	water	Status	—	101
Matcha Gotcha	grass	Special	80	90
Memento	dark	Status	—	100
Nasty Plot	dark	Status	—	101
Pain Split	normal	Status	—	101
Phantom Force	ghost	Physical	90	100
Poltergeist	ghost	Physical	110	90
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Psych Up	normal	Status	—	101
Rage Powder	bug	Status	—	101
Reflect	psychic	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Scald	water	Special	80	100
Shadow Ball	ghost	Special	80	100
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Solar Beam	grass	Special	120	100
Spite	ghost	Status	—	100
Strength Sap	grass	Status	—	100
Stun Spore	grass	Status	—	75
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Trick Room	psychic	Status	—	101
Uproar	normal	Special	90	100

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