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cresselia
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Cresselia

Lunar Pokémon

Psychic

Shiny particles are released from its wings like a veil. It is said to represent the crescent moon.

Base Stats

HP 120
Attack 70
Defense 110
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 120
Speed 85
Total 580

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Lunar Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 85.6 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 100
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

cresselia Front Front
cresselia Back Back
cresselia Front Shiny Front Shiny
cresselia Back Shiny Back Shiny
cresselia Official Art Official Art
cresselia Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Relaxed
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4
Dual Screens
Moves
Thunder Wave / Ice Beam / Psychic
Item
Light Clay
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 148
SpD 40
Spe 68
Calm Mind
Moves
Hidden Power Fire / Hidden Power Fighting / Ice Beam / Sleep Talk
Rest / Moonlight
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 112
SpA 48
SpD 80
Spe 16

Strategy Overview

Cresselia is the bulkiest Pokemon in DPP OU and with its excellent movepool and immunity to Spikes and Toxic Spikes, it has a place on very defensive stall teams or as a dedicated support slot. Cresselia has a couple of unique advantages for defensive teams: it is notably one of the only counters to mixed Dragon-types such as Dragonite and Flygon in the tier; with Rest, it has a huge quantity of PP and can survive a long time while attempting to freeze the foe with Ice Beam; and Lunar Dance allows it to both heal up and restore PP for Clefable or another valuable Pokemon, which can be back-breaking. However, Cresselia has many exploitable weaknesses. Firstly, the prevalence of sandstorm severely limits its healing capabilities. Secondly, its pure Psychic-typing and poor offensive stats notably gives it a huge weakness to Tyranitar, Jirachi, Scizor, and Heatran, some of the most popular Pokemon in the metagame. Therefore, it requires significantly more team support than most Pokemon to work properly -- on defensive teams, it really wants Heal Bell support, is extremely passive, and often competes for a teamslot with the versatile Latias.

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
67.8%
Rest
46.8%
Reflect
30.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
53.4%
Lum Berry
14.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc