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altaria
#334

Altaria

Humming Pokémon

DragonFlying

It flies gracefully through the sky. Its melodic humming makes you feel like you’re in a dream.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 70
Defense 90
Sp. Atk 70
Sp. Def 105
Speed 80
Total 490

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

altaria Altaria Lv. 35

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Humming Pokémon
Height 1.1 m
Weight 20.6 kg
Base Exp 172
Growth Rate Slow Then Very Fast
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Flying ,Dragon

Sprites

altaria Front Front
altaria Back Back
altaria Front Shiny Front Shiny
altaria Back Shiny Back Shiny
altaria Official Art Official Art
altaria Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

battlespotdoubles Usage: 1.6%
Special Attacker
Moves
Fire Blast / Flamethrower
Tailwind / Hidden Power Ground
Item
Altarianite
Ability
Cloud Nine
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 252
SpA 196
Spe 60

Strategy Overview

Altaria's Mega Evolution gives it good stats and an amazing new ability in Pixilate, but the metagame around it has many answers for it or better options to use. However, poor Defense and HP plague the other two Pixilate users, while Mega Altaria's amazing 110 Defense and 105 Special Defense along with an astounding 7 resistances allow it to survive incredibly powerful moves. These include max Special Attack Mega Charizard Y's Overheat in sun as well as max Attack Mega Kangaskhan and Mega Salamence's Double-Edge. Altaria also has access to moves such as Draco Meteor, Ice Beam, and Fire Blast that Gardevoir and Sylveon do not. Altaria also has an extensive support movepool and an interesting niche ability in Cloud Nine, being the only viable passive weather stop in the Battle Spot Doubles metagame. This ability halts Swift Swim, Chlorophyll, Rain Dish, and Solar Power in their tracks, as well as forcing Mega Charizard Y's Solar Beam to take two turns to use, leaving Mega Charizard Y open for a whole turn. However, Altaria's terrible base 80 Speed leaves it too fast for Trick Room while slightly too slow for standard playstyles, and its loss of its Flying typing leaves it vulnerable to Earthquake and other Ground-type moves.

Most Used Moves

Protect
80.7%
Roost
29.6%
Return
23.2%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc