#781
Dhelmise
Sea Creeper Pokémon
GhostGrass
Swinging its massive anchor, it can KO Wailord in a single blow. What appears to be green seaweed is actually its body.
Base Stats
HP 70
Attack 131
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 86
Sp. Def 90
Speed 40
Total 517
Type Effectiveness
Abilities
Evolution Chain
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Details
Category Sea Creeper Pokémon
Height 3.9 m
Weight 210.0 kg
Base Exp 181
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 25
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat —
Egg Groups Mineral
Sprites
Front
Back
Front Shiny
Back Shiny
Official Art
Official Art (Shiny)Competitive
Offensive
Item
Life Orb / Grassium Z
Nature
Brave
EVs
HP 188
Atk 252
Def 12
SpD 52
Assault Vest
Item
Assault Vest
Nature
Brave
EVs
HP 156
Atk 252
SpD 100
Strategy Overview
- Dhelmise's typing is useful defensively and offensively. It has many useful resistances, two immunities, and can hit anything at least neutrally.
- It possesses a great Attack stat of base 131, and, thanks to its typing, can OHKO a handful of threats and 2HKO almost everything else.
- Its 70/100/90 defenses are nothing to laugh at, giving it high longevity and increasing its usefulness as a switch-in.
- Steelworker effectively gives it a third STAB type in Steel, further increasing its coverage and making it the only viable Pokemon besides Celesteela that resists Ground and does 1.5x damage with Steel-type moves.
- Its typing can also be a hindrance, having weaknesses to Dark, Ice, and Fire, three very common types in the metagame.
- Its base 40 Speed makes it almost useless when not under Trick Room, for it has to take large chunks of damage before it can use an attack that doesn't even always KO in return. Its good qualities as a switch-in are also fairly neutered by this.
- It doesn't have a good physical Ghost-type STAB move, limiting the damage it can do to Ghost-vulnerable targets.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc