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ursaring
#217

Ursaring

Hibernator Pokémon

Normal

In its territory, it leaves scratches on trees that bear delicious berries or fruits.

Base Stats

HP 90
Attack 130
Defense 75
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 75
Speed 55
Total 500

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Hibernator Pokémon
Height 1.8 m
Weight 125.8 kg
Base Exp 175
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

ursaring Front Front
ursaring Back Back
ursaring Front Shiny Front Shiny
ursaring Back Shiny Back Shiny
ursaring Front ♀ Front ♀
ursaring Back ♀ Back ♀
ursaring Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
ursaring Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
ursaring Official Art Official Art
ursaring Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Quick Feet
Item
Toxic Orb
Ability
Quick Feet
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252
Guts
Moves
Protect / Swords Dance
Item
Toxic Orb
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252
SubSD
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 248
Atk 124
Def 52
Spe 84

Strategy Overview

Ursaring is a very threatening Pokemon, taking advantage of otherwise crippling status conditions with two abilities that benefit from them: Quick Feet and Guts. Quick Feet fixes Ursaring's Speed issues and allows it to become one of the scariest late-game sweepers in NU. Guts, on the other hand, boosts Ursaring's already massive Attack to sky-high levels, allowing it to at least dent everything in the tier. Ursaring also has a good movepool to work with that allows it to get past Ghost-, Rock-, and Steel-types, something that not many other Normal-types in the tier can do. However, Ursaring is let down by its poor typing, being easy pickings for the numerous Fighting-types running around NU. It also struggles to maintain longevity, as the status Orbs that Ursaring tends to hold chip its life away; this, combined with its only above-average bulk, means that it won't be sticking around for too long. It also faces stiff competition from Swellow and Zangoose, two other Normal-types that also use status to their advantage. It does, however, have the advantage of being faster (with Quick Feet) than Zangoose, and it is more powerful than Swellow (with Guts), while also having considerably more bulk. In addition, Ursaring has a better movepool than both of them.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc