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metagross
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Metagross

Iron Leg Pokémon

SteelPsychic

Metang combined to form it. With four brains, it has the intelligence of a supercomputer.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 135
Defense 130
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 90
Speed 70
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

metang Metang Lv. 20
metagross Metagross Lv. 45

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Iron Leg Pokémon
Height 1.6 m
Weight 550.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 35
Gender Genderless
Habitat Rough Terrain
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

metagross Front Front
metagross Back Back
metagross Front Shiny Front Shiny
metagross Back Shiny Back Shiny
metagross Official Art Official Art
metagross Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Stealth Rock
Item
Custap Berry
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 252
Atk 96
SpD 160

Strategy Overview

Metagross has a very small niche in BW OU as the only Steel-type that learns Pursuit, Stealth Rock, and Explosion, which makes it a fringe option on hyper offense teams that would like to compress a way to remove Latios and a Stealth Rock setter that maintains momentum into one teamslot. However, it's often not worth using due to the existence of better offensive Stealth Rock setters like Garchomp, Jirachi, and Landorus-T, as they are faster and have much better matchups against the majority of the metagame. It's also outclassed by other Steel-types, including Ferrothorn, Excadrill, Jirachi, Heatran, and Skarmory, in every other role as a result of their better defensive profiles, letting them more consistently check many of the metagame's offensive threats, and superior support movepools, letting them more easily set up or even remove entry hazards.

Most Used Moves

Pursuit
71.5%
Ice Punch
67.9%
Explosion
22.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
16.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc