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aurorus
#699

Aurorus

Tundra Pokémon

RockIce

The diamond-shaped crystals on its body expel air as cold as -240 degrees Fahrenheit, surrounding its enemies and encasing them in ice.

Base Stats

HP 123
Attack 77
Defense 72
Sp. Atk 99
Sp. Def 92
Speed 58
Total 521

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

aurorus Aurorus Lv. 39

Moves

Details

Category Tundra Pokémon
Height 2.7 m
Weight 225.0 kg
Base Exp 104
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Monster

Sprites

aurorus Front Front
aurorus Back Back
aurorus Front Shiny Front Shiny
aurorus Back Shiny Back Shiny
aurorus Official Art Official Art
aurorus Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 0.2%
Stealth Rock
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Timid / Modest
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252
Rock Polish
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Timid
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Aurorus's access to one of the best offensive STAB types in the tier, Ice, and Refrigerate, which boosts its Normal-type moves to monstrous power, make a potent offensive threat. It has a niche over similar wallbreakers such as Exploud with its useful utility moves, Stealth Rock and Rock Polish. Aurorus is a good user of Stealth Rock because it is able to threaten nearly every Defog user with its Ice-type STAB moves, and it can even clean offensive teams thanks to its ability to outspeed the entire tier after a Rock Polish boost. However, Aurorus still possesses an extremely horrible defensive typing that gives it six common weaknesses, including 4x ones to Steel and Fighting and a weakness to Stealth Rock. This, coupled with its low Speed before a Rock Polish boost, limits its ability to switch into attacks and set up. Finally, Steel-types such as Bronzong and Escavalier can easily counter Aurorus, meaning it needs team support to weaken these Pokemon before it can substantially threaten the opposing team.

Most Used Moves

Blizzard
20.4%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
47.0%
Leftovers
21.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc