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minun
#312

Minun

Cheering Pokémon

Electric

MINUN is more concerned about cheering on its partners than its own safety. It shorts out the electricity in its body to create brilliant showers of sparks to cheer on its teammates.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 40
Defense 50
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 85
Speed 95
Total 405

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Cheering Pokémon
Height 0.4 m
Weight 4.2 kg
Base Exp 142
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 200
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Fairy

Sprites

minun Front Front
minun Back Back
minun Front Shiny Front Shiny
minun Back Shiny Back Shiny
minun Official Art Official Art
minun Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

nu Usage: 2.8%
Support
Moves
Encore / Substitute
Baton Pass / Light Screen
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 252
SpA 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

There's little reason to use Minun when Plusle and Pikachu are in the tier. Offensively, Minun is outclassed by both; however, in a support role, Minun is usually the better choice. Fortunately for Minun, its support movepool is pretty expansive, and while it's outclassed by Plusle offensively, it's still offensively threatening in its own right. The real question to consider is: why choose Minun over other support Pokemon in the tier, particularly much more defensive options like Kecleon and Swalot? The answer should be its incredible base 95 Speed and the fact it has Electric-type STAB moves to revenge kill the likes of very dangerous Pokemon like Pidgeot and Murkrow. Either that or because it's significantly cuter than the other options.

Most Used Moves

Encore
70.8%
Agility
70.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
82.7%
Nothing
0.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc