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drilbur
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Drilbur

Mole Pokémon

Ground

It can dig through the ground at a speed of 30 mph. It could give a car running aboveground a good race.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 85
Defense 40
Sp. Atk 30
Sp. Def 45
Speed 68
Total 328

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Mole Pokémon
Height 0.3 m
Weight 8.5 kg
Base Exp 66
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 120
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

drilbur Front Front
drilbur Back Back
drilbur Front Shiny Front Shiny
drilbur Back Shiny Back Shiny
drilbur Official Art Official Art
drilbur Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 2.8%
Choice Scarf
Item
Choice Scarf
Ability
Mold Breaker
Nature
Jolly / Adamant
EVs
Atk 236
Def 36
Spe 212
Utility
Moves
Rock Slide / Rock Tomb
Stealth Rock / Swords Dance
Rapid Spin / Swords Dance
Item
Berry Juice / Eviolite
Ability
Mold Breaker
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 36
Atk 76
Def 36
SpD 76
Spe 212
All-out Attacker
Item
Life Orb / Groundium Z
Ability
Mold Breaker
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 36
Atk 236
Spe 212

Strategy Overview

Drilbur can fulfill several different roles in the LC metagame and thus fits on offensive and balanced teams alike. Its moderate bulk with an Eviolite or Berry Juice allows it to also make use of its good utility movepool to set up entry hazards, remove them, and provide its team with speed control. Its high Attack and Speed stats alongside an amazing offensive typing allow it to use powerful Swords Dance-boosted moves like STAB Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Shadow Claw to punch holes in opposing teams. Drilbur also has an extremely useful ability in Mold Breaker, which allows it to ignore abilities like Sturdy and Levitate to easily defeat the likes of Gastly and Onix. However, despite its perks, Drilbur is rather frail even with an Eviolite and can thus be overwhelmed in trying to accomplish its roles by powerful offensive threats, such as Rufflet, Doduo, and Abra. Drilbur also has a poor defensive typing, with weaknesses to the tier's common Grass-, Water-, and Ice-type attacks and to common priority moves in Aqua Jet from Corphish and Ice Shard from Snover. Drilbur also struggles to deal with some of the tier's Ghost-types that prevent it from using Rapid Spin, as Pumpkaboo-XL resists its STAB attacks and Frillish can threaten it with powerful Water-type STAB attacks. Lastly, Drilbur struggles in that at times it faces stiff offensive competition from Mudbray, which is stronger, has a better ability, and has better coverage.

Most Used Moves

Rock Tomb
14.6%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
19.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc