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electabuzz
#125

Electabuzz

Electric Pokémon

Electric

Half of all blackouts occur when this Pokémon appears at power plants and eats electricity.

Base Stats

HP 65
Attack 83
Defense 57
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 85
Speed 105
Total 490

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Electric Pokémon
Height 1.1 m
Weight 30.0 kg
Base Exp 172
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 75% ♂ / 25% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Humanshape

Sprites

electabuzz Front Front
electabuzz Back Back
electabuzz Front Shiny Front Shiny
electabuzz Back Shiny Back Shiny
electabuzz Official Art Official Art
electabuzz Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

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Life Orb
Moves
Hidden Power Grass / Hidden Power Ice
Cross Chop / Focus Blast
Psychic / Substitute
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Hasty
EVs
Atk 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Electabuzz, a highly popular Underused Pokemon in RSE, received both a blessing and a curse in the transition to the DPP metagame - while it struggles to regain its old popularity in the Underused tier, it was blessed with an evolution, Electivire, who ascended the ranks into Overused. Pokemon whom Electabuzz once dominated entirely and Pokemon who didn't exist in RSE now compete with Electabuzz for a spot on a team, and Electabuzz simply does not have enough going for it to merit its old popularity. The most notable of the Pokemon who have crept out from Electabuzz's old shadow is Manectric, who is now blessed with an extended movepool and is almost always a far more usable choice. Despite this, Electabuzz is still a reasonably good mixed sweeper, and unlike Manectric, it is still able to defeat Chansey one-on-one. Though certainly not the best, it is definitely not the worst at its job and occupies its own unique niche in the metagame.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc