Piloswine
Swine Pokémon
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.
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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.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc