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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

ubers Usage: 3.9%
Wall
Moves
Hidden Power Fire / Toxic / Lunar Dance
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4
Dual Screens
Moves
Thunder Wave / Moonlight / Ice Beam
Item
Light Clay
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 252
SpD 24
Spe 232

Strategy Overview

Cresselia is a physical tank who excels at preventing physical threats, most prominently Groudon, Rayquaza, and Garchomp, from annihilating one's team. Unlike Lugia, Cresselia lacks a Rock-type weakness, meaning she takes less damage from Stealth Rock and Stone Edge, while sporting roughly the same physical durability. Due to the lack of Stealth Rock weakness, she can reliably defeat Dragon Dance Rayquaza, unlike Lugia, making her the ultimate physical wall. Cresselia also makes a great dual screener with only three weaknesses, titanic defenses, a passable Speed stat--with a Timid nature, she is capable of outrunning the many base 90 Speed Ubers that do not run a Speed-boosting nature--and perhaps most importantly, Lunar Dance, which enables a sweeper to come back into play at full health.

However, Lugia competes with Cresselia, due to her limited movepool, overall inferior stats, and the need for sunlight support in order to have reliable recovery in the form of Moonlight (with less PP too). As a dual screen user, she also faces significant competition, though Lunar Dance makes her unique in her role. Nevertheless, these are only limiting factors. Cresselia's movepool is more than enough to adequately support her teammates, her stats enable her to carry out her purpose, and Groudon's constant presence on the battlefield makes Moonlight more reliable in Ubers than in the sandstorm-dominated OU metagame.

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
95.8%
Moonlight
95.5%
Reflect
5.0%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
96.3%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc