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yanmega
#469

Yanmega

Ogre Darner Pokémon

BugFlying

By churning its wings, it creates shock waves that inflict critical internal injuries to foes.

Base Stats

HP 86
Attack 76
Defense 86
Sp. Atk 116
Sp. Def 56
Speed 95
Total 515

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

yanmega Yanmega Ancient Power

Moves

Details

Category Ogre Darner Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 51.5 kg
Base Exp 180
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 30
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

yanmega Front Front
yanmega Back Back
yanmega Front Shiny Front Shiny
yanmega Back Shiny Back Shiny
yanmega Official Art Official Art
yanmega Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 0.9%
Attacking Lead
Moves
Hidden Power Ground / Hidden Power Fire
Item
Focus Sash
Nature
Modest
EVs
Def 104
SpA 252
Spe 152
Choice Specs
Item
Choice Specs
Ability
Tinted Lens
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Yanmega has an excellent Special Attack stat, very respectable Speed, and two of the most powerful abilities in the game at his disposal. With Tinted Lens, Yanmega is capable of 2HKOing even dedicated walls who resist his STAB attacks, an impressive feat. Meanwhile, if he instead chooses to use Speed Boost, he will outspeed the entire metagame, including Choice Scarf users, after a turn or two.

It's hard to imagine Yanmega being anything other than top-tier OU after considering his strengths, yet the fact remains that he's not. Yanmega suffers from an utterly crippling 4x weakness to Stealth Rock that has completely nullified his presence as a standard of the metagame. Weaknesses to common Fire-, Ice-, and Electric-type attacks aren't helping Yanmega's position either. These weaknesses, coupled with Yanmega's not-so-stellar defenses, have sealed the dragonfly's fate and unfortunately banished him to the bottom of OU.

Most Used Moves

Air Slash
100.0%
Bug Buzz
100.0%
Protect
62.2%
U-turn
20.4%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
59.5%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc