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piloswine
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Piloswine

Swine Pokémon

IceGround

PILOSWINE is covered by a thick coat of long hair that enables it to endure the freezing cold. This POKéMON uses its tusks to dig up food that has been buried under ice.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 100
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 60
Speed 50
Total 450

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

piloswine Piloswine Lv. 33
mamoswine Mamoswine Ancient Power

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Swine Pokémon
Height 1.1 m
Weight 55.8 kg
Base Exp 158
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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

Competitive

nu Usage: 0.8%
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Naughty
EVs
HP 212
Atk 252
Spe 44
Tank
Moves
Ice Beam / Blizzard
Toxic / Roar
Protect / Roar
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Brave
EVs
HP 248
Atk 16
Def 152
SpA 92
Screen Lure
Moves
Light Screen / Reflect
Ice Beam / Blizzard
Toxic / Roar
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Brave
EVs
HP 212
Atk 204
SpA 92

Strategy Overview

Piloswine is an undeniably cool Pokemon with a unique typing, but unfortunately those factors do not do it any favors on the battlefield. Having Ice STAB is decent, but Rock STAB would be better when combined with Piloswine's Ground STAB and overall stat spread. Regardless, Piloswine is a veritable tank in the tier, being very hard to OHKO and usually being able to OHKO the foe back with the right move. However, low Speed, a lack of resistances, and a vulnerability to the many Grass-, Fire-, and Water-types in the tier, as well as Hitmonchan, lower Piloswine's general effectiveness. Still, its lack of a Ground-type weakness is nice, and its access to a plethora of moves outside of Earthquake like Roar gives it some utility over its main competition in Graveler.

Most Used Moves

Earthquake
100.0%
Ice Beam
66.2%
Protect
27.3%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
93.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc