Going Batty
Noivern@Life Orb
Timid nature
Infiltrator
252 Sp. Atk/252 Speed/4 HP
~Dragon Pulse
~Hurricane
~Flamethrower/Heat Wave
~Focus Blast/Boomburst
Noivern is all kinds of awesome. Dragon Pulse and Hurricane are your STAB moves. Flamethrower is coverage- and none too shabby when paired with Dragon Pulse, at that. In fact, there was a time when the only Pokémon that resisted Dragon Fire coverage was Heatran. In fact, to that end, final move is Focus Blast. But if you don't fear Heatran that much for whatever reason, feel free to swap it out for Boomburst, which is just raw power with no drawback.
Item powers up the attacks. Ability means you're not sweating Light Screen or Substitute.
Other options:
*Being a Dragon-type, Noivern can pack Draco Meteor.
*With many of Noivern's options having high power but low accuracy or else some other form of drawback, this might not be the worst idea for using a Z-Move. Boomburst can turn into the strongest Breakneck Blitz possible. Draco Meteor becomes Devastating Drake with no Sp. Atk drop. Focus Blast becomes the guaranteed to hit All-Out Pummeling, and Hurricane doesn't rely so much on rain to always hit if you use it for Supersonic Skystrike.
*Choice Specs- Noivern can use those well enough, just throwing that out there.
*If you want truly unresisted coverage at the cost of a Fire move, swap out Flamethrower for Shadow Ball. Ghost and Fighting is completely unresisted coverage.
Abilities:
*Frisk: Noivern, upon entering battle, broadcasts to both players what item its adversary holds. Useful Ability in and of itself, nice for when your opponent tries to bluff a choice item or something like that, but far from the best Noivern has to offer.
*Infiltrator: Noivern's attacks bypass the effects of Reflect, Light Screen, Aurora Veil, Safeguard, and Substitute. Always useful to have, and easily Noivern's best Ability. For single battles, anyway.
*Telepathy: Noivern's Hidden Ability. Noivern is immune to all attacks used by its allies. I don't really cover doubles so much, but it really is a useful Ability in douibles, lets you partner Noivern with something that uses moves like Explosion or Discharge- or indeed, Boomburst. Granted, Noivern already packs Earthquake immunity by virtue of its type, but the moves I mentioned, among others, are always nice to have an immunity to.
Partners:
If you're using Specs Noivern, you want a way to keep the Stealth Rocks clear, because there is going to be much switching going on. And of course, Noivern is a dedicated special attacker, so basically whatever answers you got to various special walls, this is what Noivern will want to be partnered with.
Counters:
Diancie resists one of Noivern's STABs and is immune to the other, and can strike back with powerful super effective STAB Moonblast/Diamond Storm/whatever else. Then you got the potential of Ice Beam Blissey to worry about, that could be a thing. And Tentacruel. And Mantine. It goes on.
Opinion:
Noivern is just awesome. Cool design, cool moves, even its cry is kinda cool. Would be my favorite Dragon-type were Dragalge not a thing.
Prediction for next week:
Gourgeist.