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regieleki
#894

Regieleki

Electron Pokémon

Electric

This Pokémon is a cluster of electrical energy. It’s said that removing the rings on Regieleki’s body will unleash the Pokémon’s latent power.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 100
Defense 50
Sp. Atk 100
Sp. Def 50
Speed 200
Total 580

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Electron Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 145.0 kg
Base Exp 290
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 35
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

regieleki Front Front
regieleki Back Back
regieleki Front Shiny Front Shiny
regieleki Back Shiny Back Shiny
regieleki Official Art Official Art
regieleki Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Mono-Electric
Item
Choice Specs
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 4
Def 44
SpA 232
Spe 228

Strategy Overview

While Regieleki is mostly a terrible Pokemon in DOU, it does have an incredibly minor niche as a workable hyper offense attacker alongisde Tapu Koko. Boasting a blazing base 200 Speed that lets it outrun even Kingdra under rain and Choice Scarf users such as Urshifu-R and Genesect, Regieleki blitzes through opposing offensive teams if enabled with Electric Terrain, as Regieleki's Transistor-boosted STAB attacks become quite lethal even to bulky and resistant foes, with Rising Voltage able to OHKO Incineroar, Dragapult, Mew, and Naganadel. The problem, of course, is how Regieleki is easily checked defensively as it has absolutely no usable coverage moves, leaving it easily answered by Zeraora, Ground-types, such as Zygarde and Landorus, and the metagame's bulky Grass- and Dragon-types, such as Rillaboom, Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, and Kyurem-B. Urshifu-R and Kyurem-B are thus solid partners, as they can each cover some of these threats while also being strong attackers in line with Regieleki's aggressive playstyle. Still, the pairing with Tapu Koko is optimistic at best, because Tapu Koko is generally also a suboptimal pick in the DOU metagame, and other Terrain setters are quite omnipresent, especially with a top DOU Pokemon in Rillaboom being a particularly hard counter. Regieleki is ultimately often dead weight, its high Speed invalidated and frailty exposed by the prevalence of Fake Out and priority moves, speed control such as Tailwind and Trick Room, and its own inability to threaten anything with a non-Electric-type attack.

Most Used Moves

Protect
32.8%
Explosion
22.5%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
17.8%
Magnet
11.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc