Vespiquen is one of those gimmicky pokemon whose sole purpose is to be a gimmick. The only way to get one is by evolving a female combee (not male). While this should make sense, they have a female Mr. Mime.
Even so, people shouldn't rant on about how bad Vespiquen is. She has a pretty usable move-pool. Vespiquen's main gimmick is having the "orders". Attack Order, Heal Order, and Defend Order. Honestly, she is usable. Defensively, 70/104/104 isn't half bad. While the SR weakness sucks, with a Rapid Spinner in hand, one can actually use Vespi well. She has a mere base 80 in both Attack and Special Attack, so she can't really run a mixed set. She lacks the physical move-pool to do any major damage physically. The last, killing point offensively, is her lack of high-powered attacks. Her strongest is Attack Order, a decent base 90 powered attack. Things aren't looking great for Vespiquen.
Abilities
Pressure: Her abilities don't help at all. Increases opponent's PP usage. Ok for stall, I guess.
Unnerve DW: Currently unreleased. Opponent doesn't eat his or her berries. Also meh.
OBEY
-Substitute
-Heal Order
-Defend Order
-Sludge Bomb
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs and Nature: Modest (+Sp. Atk, -Atk)
252 Hp/128 Def/128 Sp. Def
Stall set. Set up Sub, use Defend Order to and Heal Order to survive forever, and Sludge Bomb has a decent chance of poisoning the target, which isn't half bad. It also prevents Vespi from being Taunt bait. Modest is for Sludge Bomb to be stronger.
Our Special Queen
-Power Gem
-Signal Beam
-Hidden Power [Ground]
-Ominous Wind
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs and Nature: Modest (+Sp. Atk, -Atk)
252 Hp/252 Sp. Atk/4 Spd
This is Vespi's only usable Special set. I don't know why nobody mentioned Power Gem, which has decent power and coverage against Flying types. It sucks that Vespiquen doesn't get Bug Buzz, so Signal Beam will have to do instead. HP Ground is excellent coverage for Vespiquen's weaknesses, and Ominous Wind is random coverage, with the chance to boost all of her stats. With a base 40 Speed, Vespiquen isn't going to out-speed anybody, so max Hp instead. Life Orb for power and coverage.
Other Options
I was considering posting a mixed attacker set, but Vespiquen needs all of the EVs in either one of her stats that she can get. Her Attack and Special Attack stats are a mere 80.
Attack Order is her strongest attack. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the physical move-pool to have a physical set.
Partners
Vespiquen loves Water types. She surrounds her hive with Water types to keep Fire and Rock type pokemon away. She needs a spinner, badly. x4 SR weakness is nothing to laugh at.
Countering Vespiquen
Rock types laugh at her, especially Aggron, who can take HP Ground thanks to Sturdy, and hit right back with any of his STAB Rock type attacks. Fire types need to watch out for HP Ground and Power Gem, but since most out-speed Vespiquen, it shouldn't be a huge problem. And then there's Stealth Rock. After getting hurt by Stealth Rock, just about any pokemon with a decent Attack or Special Attack stat can bring her down, so long as it uses a super-effective attack.
Even so, people shouldn't rant on about how bad Vespiquen is. She has a pretty usable move-pool. Vespiquen's main gimmick is having the "orders". Attack Order, Heal Order, and Defend Order. Honestly, she is usable. Defensively, 70/104/104 isn't half bad. While the SR weakness sucks, with a Rapid Spinner in hand, one can actually use Vespi well. She has a mere base 80 in both Attack and Special Attack, so she can't really run a mixed set. She lacks the physical move-pool to do any major damage physically. The last, killing point offensively, is her lack of high-powered attacks. Her strongest is Attack Order, a decent base 90 powered attack. Things aren't looking great for Vespiquen.
Abilities
Pressure: Her abilities don't help at all. Increases opponent's PP usage. Ok for stall, I guess.
Unnerve DW: Currently unreleased. Opponent doesn't eat his or her berries. Also meh.
OBEY
-Substitute
-Heal Order
-Defend Order
-Sludge Bomb
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs and Nature: Modest (+Sp. Atk, -Atk)
252 Hp/128 Def/128 Sp. Def
Stall set. Set up Sub, use Defend Order to and Heal Order to survive forever, and Sludge Bomb has a decent chance of poisoning the target, which isn't half bad. It also prevents Vespi from being Taunt bait. Modest is for Sludge Bomb to be stronger.
Our Special Queen
-Power Gem
-Signal Beam
-Hidden Power [Ground]
-Ominous Wind
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs and Nature: Modest (+Sp. Atk, -Atk)
252 Hp/252 Sp. Atk/4 Spd
This is Vespi's only usable Special set. I don't know why nobody mentioned Power Gem, which has decent power and coverage against Flying types. It sucks that Vespiquen doesn't get Bug Buzz, so Signal Beam will have to do instead. HP Ground is excellent coverage for Vespiquen's weaknesses, and Ominous Wind is random coverage, with the chance to boost all of her stats. With a base 40 Speed, Vespiquen isn't going to out-speed anybody, so max Hp instead. Life Orb for power and coverage.
Other Options
I was considering posting a mixed attacker set, but Vespiquen needs all of the EVs in either one of her stats that she can get. Her Attack and Special Attack stats are a mere 80.
Attack Order is her strongest attack. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the physical move-pool to have a physical set.
Partners
Vespiquen loves Water types. She surrounds her hive with Water types to keep Fire and Rock type pokemon away. She needs a spinner, badly. x4 SR weakness is nothing to laugh at.
Countering Vespiquen
Rock types laugh at her, especially Aggron, who can take HP Ground thanks to Sturdy, and hit right back with any of his STAB Rock type attacks. Fire types need to watch out for HP Ground and Power Gem, but since most out-speed Vespiquen, it shouldn't be a huge problem. And then there's Stealth Rock. After getting hurt by Stealth Rock, just about any pokemon with a decent Attack or Special Attack stat can bring her down, so long as it uses a super-effective attack.