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Blissey
Happiness Pokémon
Normal
Even the most ferocious Pokémon become calm when they eat Blissey’s egg, which is said to be filled with happiness.
Base Stats
HP 255
Attack 10
Defense 10
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 135
Speed 55
Total 540
Type Effectiveness
Weak to
Immune to
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Details
Category Happiness Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 46.8 kg
Base Exp 608
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 30
Base Happiness 140
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat Urban
Egg Groups Fairy
Sprites
Front
Back
Front Shiny
Back Shiny
Official Art
Official Art (Shiny)Competitive
Support
Item
Shed Shell
Nature
Calm
EVs
HP 252
Def 4
SpD 252
Strategy Overview
- Blissey serves as a crucial defensive backbone on stall teams that can provide various utility options. Immense special bulk and Natural Cure combine to make Blissey an efficient check to various support Arceus formes, Xerneas, and other special attackers, which not many Pokemon on defensive teams are eager to consistently pivot into. Access to Heal Bell allows Blissey to further limit said foes' usefulness by curing its teammates of status and allowing them to outlast the opposing team.
- The most important reason to employ Blissey over Chansey on defensive teams is that Blissey has an option to entirely avoid Shadow Tag users and the uncommon Dugtrio by holding Shed Shell. This means Blissey will not significantly influence its team's structure like Chansey would and thus provide players with more options to choose its teammates instead of mandating certain partners like Pursuit trappers.
- While being able to avoid trapping makes Blissey more commonly chosen over Chansey, Blissey has less bulk in comparison to Chansey holding an Eviolite. This makes Blissey's matchup against certain Pokemon like Geomancy Xerneas and Calm Mind Primal Kyogre shakier to some degree, as Blissey risks getting 2HKOed by said foes after boosts, while Chansey can avoid this concern due to its better bulk. Chansey also has some resilience against physical attacks thanks to Eviolite, while Blissey suffers from its extreme vulnerability to practically every physical move, struggling to fit onto any archetype apart from stall. Blissey's almost nonexistent physical bulk also means that Pursuit users like Marshadow and Tyranitar can net heavy damage while forcing it out.
- Blissey suffers from its general passivity: the inability to do much damage to Pokemon that do not mind Toxic, the prevalence of Substitute users, and the ubiquity of overwhelming physical attackers in the tier contribute to Blissey being a momentum drain in many instances.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc