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cresselia
#488

Cresselia

Lunar Pokémon

Psychic

Shiny particles are released from its wings like a veil. It is said to represent the crescent moon.

Base Stats

HP 120
Attack 70
Defense 110
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 120
Speed 85
Total 580

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Lunar Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 85.6 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 100
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

cresselia Front Front
cresselia Back Back
cresselia Front Shiny Front Shiny
cresselia Back Shiny Back Shiny
cresselia Official Art Official Art
cresselia Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Defensive Z-Move
Item
Fairium Z
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 240
Spe 16

Strategy Overview

Cresselia has a niche on bulkier teams due to its ability to remove multiple stallbreakers in the tier like Crawdaunt and Haxorus. Cresselia's humongous bulk also allows it to stomach hits from the strong physical wallbreakers in the tier such as Terrakion and Mamoswine. However, Cresselia not only provides defensive teams with a mixed wall and an emergency way to deal with the aforementioned threats but also can be a bulky wincon through the use of Calm Mind. Its defensive typing and ability are also decent, providing it with a good resistance to Fighting-types and a Ground-immunity to allow it to check Cobalion, Nidoking, and Choice Band Swampert, but its Psychic typing also makes it more susceptible to Pursuit and U-turn from Scizor while failing to offer resistances to anything else. Cresselia does get completely walled by Steel-types if it attempts to set up and is setup fodder against other setup sweepers such as Swords Dance Scizor, Nasty Plot Togekiss, and Curse Mega Steelix. Cresselia's Twinkle Tackle is also unfortunately pretty weak and fails to OHKO even Pokemon that are weak to it such as Latias and Mega Altaria. It often needs a Calm Mind boost to take them out, but this can take up a turn where it must take another hit to remove the threat. Furthermore, Cresselia's only form of recovery, Moonlight, can be unreliable due to its low PP in longer games, and its lacking recovery also makes it a little more susceptible to constant chip damage from entry hazards and status.

Most Used Moves

Moonblast
90.3%
Moonlight
89.9%
Toxic
49.4%
Calm Mind
37.3%
Ice Beam
30.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
62.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc