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Archeops

First Bird Pokémon

RockFlying

They are intelligent and will cooperate to catch prey. From the ground, they use a running start to take flight.

Base Stats

HP 75

Attack 140

Defense 65

Sp. Atk 112

Sp. Def 65

Speed 110

Total 567

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

rock 2x steel 2x water 2x electric 2x ice 2x

Resistant to

normal ½x flying ½x poison ½x bug ½x fire ½x

Immune to

ground 0x

Abilities

Defeatist

Evolution Chain

Archen

→

Archeops Lv. 37

Moves

Details

Category First Bird Pokémon

Height 1.4 m

Weight 32.0 kg

Base Exp 177

Growth Rate Medium

Capture Rate 45

Base Happiness 70

Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀

Habitat —

Egg Groups Flying ,Water3

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

vgc2011 Usage: 0.6%

VGC2012 VGC2011 UU RU MONOTYPE

Physical Attacker

Moves

Acrobatics

Rock Slide

Earthquake / Quick Attack

Protect / Quick Guard

Item

Flying Gem

Nature

Jolly

EVs

HP 4

Atk 252

Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Archeops threatens the metagame with a huge base Attack of 140 and high base 110 Speed. Combine these strengths with an immunity to Ground-type attacks, STAB Rock Slide, and a large attacking movepool, and this bird turns into a large threat for defensively-oriented teams.