Blacephalon
Fireworks Pokémon
It slithers toward people. Then, without warning, it triggers the explosion of its own head. It’s apparently one kind of Ultra Beast.
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Strategy Overview
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Blacephalon is among the fastest usable Fire-types in VGC, and its access to Beast Boost and Heat Wave can allow it to sweep through weakened teams.
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Blacephalon has enough Special Attack to deal serious damage, even before a Beast Boost
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Ghost is a good secondary offensive typing that allows Blacephalon to hit Cresselia and Tapu Lele hard and avoid Fake Out, with the exception of Scrappy Kangaskhan's Fake Out.
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Blacephalon's defenses are pathetic, with most strong neutral hits at least 2HKOing it.
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Blacephalon has a poor offensive movepool that mostly limits it to Fire- and Ghost-type coverage in addition to a Hidden Power, so it'll almost always be walled by something.
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Blacephalon becomes much easier to handle when rain is up, which is fairly common in VGC.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc