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lugia
#249

Lugia

Diving Pokémon

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LUGIA’s wings pack devastating power - a light fluttering of its wings can blow apart regular houses. As a result, this POKéMON chooses to live out of sight deep under the sea.

Base Stats

HP 106
Attack 90
Defense 130
Sp. Atk 90
Sp. Def 154
Speed 110
Total 680

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Diving Pokémon
Height 5.2 m
Weight 216.0 kg
Base Exp 306
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 0
Gender Genderless
Habitat Rare
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

lugia Front Front
lugia Back Back
lugia Front Shiny Front Shiny
lugia Back Shiny Back Shiny
lugia Official Art Official Art
lugia Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ubers Usage: 3.8%
Great Wall
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 160
Spe 96
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 116
Atk 252
Spe 140

Strategy Overview

Lugia is a very versatile Pokemon in the ADV Ubers metagame, able to act as an offensive or defensive threat. Its great natural bulk, Pressure, and many good utility moves let it work incredibly well as a catch-all physical wall. Defensively, it fits best on stall teams to shut down many threatening physical wallbreakers such as Groudon and Rayquaza. Lugia also has strong attacks in Aeroblast and Earthquake, allowing it to act as a good wallbreaker with Choice Band and its workable Attack stat. However, Lugia's typing leaves it susceptible to many prevalent offensive types in the metagame such as Electric, Ice, and Ghost from strong attackers like Latios, Deoxys-A, and Kyogre. The defensive set's reliance on Whirlwind to make progress can also be a double-edged sword; it stops setup sweepers before the endgame but exposes Lugia to Substitute sweepers and Immunity Snorlax if they are the last Pokemon remaining.

Most Used Moves

Whirlwind
82.8%
Recover
66.4%
Toxic
61.8%
Reflect
53.8%
Aeroblast
39.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
65.0%
Nothing
0.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc