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glalie
#362

Glalie

Face Pokémon

Ice

It prevents prey from escaping by instantaneously freezing moisture in the air.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 80
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 80
Sp. Def 80
Speed 80
Total 480

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Face Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 256.5 kg
Base Exp 168
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Fairy ,Mineral

Sprites

glalie Front Front
glalie Back Back
glalie Front Shiny Front Shiny
glalie Back Shiny Back Shiny
glalie Official Art Official Art
glalie Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

pu Usage: 7.5%
Offensive Spikes
Moves
Earthquake / Explosion
Item
Leftovers / Focus Sash
Nature
Naive
EVs
Atk 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Glalie's toolkit of Spikes, Taunt, and great offensive coverage gives it a niche in PU as an offensive Spiker. Ice Beam and Earthquake make for excellent coverage, hitting everything in the tier at least neutrally except fringe cases like Bronzor and notably forcing out the tier's most popular hazard control options in Natu and Tentacool. Glalie can also add to its utility list by running Taunt, meaning that it can set up its Spikes while blocking foes' hazards and other support moves. Glalie can even use Explosion to make itself an effective suicide lead. Its stats let it down though, as it is still too weak to threaten out most walls like Frillish and too slow to outspeed key Pokemon like Monferno. Glalie is also generally outshined by fellow Spikes users Maractus and Dwebble, which generally have better and broader support options like useful resistances and Stealth Rock, respectively.

Most Used Moves

Spikes
100.0%
Explosion
94.3%
Ice Beam
61.2%
Taunt
60.5%
Hail
35.0%

Most Used Items

Icy Rock
26.9%
Leftovers
11.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc