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porygon-z
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Porygon Z

Virtual Pokémon

Normal

In order to create a more advanced Pokémon, an additional program was installed, but apparently it contained a defect that makes it move oddly.

Base Stats

HP 85
Attack 80
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 135
Sp. Def 75
Speed 90
Total 535

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Virtual Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 34.0 kg
Base Exp 241
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 30
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

porygon-z Front Front
porygon-z Back Back
porygon-z Front Shiny Front Shiny
porygon-z Back Shiny Back Shiny
porygon-z Official Art Official Art
porygon-z Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Z-Conversion
Item
Normalium Z
Nature
Timid
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

While it's true that after Z-Conversion Porygon-Z becomes a threatening sweeper, its overreliance on stat boosts from the aforementioned move, inability to get a second chance at sweeping, and reliance on a lot of support hold it back from being viable in the metagame. Furthermore, Porygon-Z's low stats, except Special Attack, mean that it's hard to find setup opportunities due to low defenses and lack of resistances, so Porygon-Z is outclassed by better setup sweepers like Magearna. Even after setup, Porygon-Z is still relatively easy to revenge kill with common forces like Choice Scarf Landorus-T and Ash-Greninja because Porygon-Z doesn't have priority to hit these revenge killers.

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
93.6%
Recover
48.9%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc