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masquerain
#284

Masquerain

Eyeball Pokémon

BugFlying

Its antennae have eye patterns on them. Its four wings enable it to hover and fly in any direction.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 60
Defense 62
Sp. Atk 100
Sp. Def 82
Speed 80
Total 454

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Eyeball Pokémon
Height 0.8 m
Weight 3.6 kg
Base Exp 159
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups Water1 ,Bug

Sprites

masquerain Front Front
masquerain Back Back
masquerain Front Shiny Front Shiny
masquerain Back Shiny Back Shiny
masquerain Official Art Official Art
masquerain Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

nu
QuiverPass
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 248
Def 112
Spe 148

Strategy Overview

Differentiating itself from its fellow Bug-types with access to Quiver Dance, Masquerain cements its primary niche as the only user of the move with access to Baton Pass, which allows it to pass its boosts to a partner. Finding opportunities to set up can be a difficult task, largely due to Masquerain's crippling 4x weakness to Stealth Rock that is further compounded with a defensive typing that is surprisingly easy to take advantage of. It has access to a useful ability in Intimidate however, which with the help of Roost gives it the chance to set up against a variety of physical attackers and defensive Pokemon. Even when it manages to set up though, Masquerain by itself does not make for a good sweeper and relies on the partners it passes to in order to keep up the offensive momentum; using it to its utmost potential requires team support in the form of Pokemon that can take advantage of the boosts that it provides.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc