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latias
#380

Latias

Eon Pokémon

DragonPsychic

Its body is covered with a down that can refract light in such a way that it becomes invisible.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 80
Defense 90
Sp. Atk 110
Sp. Def 130
Speed 110
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Eon Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 40.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 90
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

latias Front Front
latias Back Back
latias Front Shiny Front Shiny
latias Back Shiny Back Shiny
latias Official Art Official Art
latias Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Choice Scarf
Moves
Surf / Psyshock
Healing Wish / Psyshock
Item
Choice Scarf
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Colbur Berry
Moves
Thunder Wave / Hidden Power Fire
Item
Colbur Berry
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Despite competition with Latios, Latias still makes for a great Pokemon in the metagame thanks to its superior bulk and access to Healing Wish while still offering the qualities that Latios brings to teams, such as sharing its same typing, Speed, and most importantly, an immunity to Spikes and Ground-type attacks thanks to Levitate. These excellent traits are key to keep checking threats throughout a game like Breloom, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Latias's superior bulk also allows it to act as one of the best checks to special attacking threats such as Thundurus-T and Keldeo, making it a very good answer to rain teams. Its Speed tier is incredible, as it's the defining benchmark of the tier and allows Latias to outspeed threats such as Terrakion, Keldeo, Garchomp, and Thundurus-T, as well as Speed tying Latios. Latias's main flaws are having stringent competition with Latios due to Latias's comparative lack of power to Latios and Tyranitar being very common and consistently Pursuit trapping, which is made even easier by the aforementioned lower power.

Most Used Moves

Surf
66.4%
Trick
41.2%
Recover
28.1%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
10.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc