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chesnaught
#652

Chesnaught

Spiny Armor Pokémon

GrassFighting

Its Tackle is forceful enough to flip a 50-ton tank. It shields its allies from danger with its own body.

Base Stats

HP 88
Attack 107
Defense 122
Sp. Atk 74
Sp. Def 75
Speed 64
Total 530

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

quilladin Quilladin Lv. 16

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Spiny Armor Pokémon
Height 1.6 m
Weight 90.0 kg
Base Exp 239
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

chesnaught Front Front
chesnaught Back Back
chesnaught Front Shiny Front Shiny
chesnaught Back Shiny Back Shiny
chesnaught Official Art Official Art
chesnaught Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

uu Usage: 8.3%
Spikes
Item
Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Ability
Bulletproof
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 244
Def 252
Spe 12

Strategy Overview

Chesnaught is a reliable physically bulky Spikes user that has access to recovery in Synthesis, enabling it to get the entry hazard up several times in a game. Bulletproof helps it out defensively, providing it with immunities to common moves such as Gengar and Chandelure's Shadow Ball and Stakataka's Gyro Ball. Its Grass / Fighting typing combined with Chesnaught's high Defense helps it switch into several key physical attackers such as Krookodile, Zeraora, and Bisharp. However, while this typing helps Chesnaught greatly against many physical threats, it also leaves Chesnaught critically weak to several powerful attackers such as Latias, Togekiss, Moltres, and Mega Altaria. This, combined with its passivity, gives several free turns to threatening setup sweepers like Calm Mind Latias, Swords Dance Scizor, and Dragon Dance Mega Altaria. Furthermore, while Chesnaught offers several utility options and more physical bulk, it still competes with Klefki as a Spiker, which is faster, has access to Prankster and a variety of status moves, and has a typing that can check threatening Dragon-types.

Most Used Moves

Spikes
43.1%
Synthesis
36.8%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
34.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc