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dialga
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Dialga

Temporal Pokémon

SteelDragon

A Pokémon spoken of in legend. It is said that time began moving when Dialga was born.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 120
Defense 120
Sp. Atk 150
Sp. Def 100
Speed 90
Total 680

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Temporal Pokémon
Height 5.4 m
Weight 683.0 kg
Base Exp 306
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 0
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

dialga Front Front
dialga Back Back
dialga Front Shiny Front Shiny
dialga Back Shiny Back Shiny
dialga Official Art Official Art
dialga Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Doom Desire
Moves
Draco Meteor / Spacial Rend
King's Shield / Leech Seed / Recover
Item
Adamant Orb / Safety Goggles
Ability
Tinted Lens
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 248
SpA 252
SpD 8

Strategy Overview

Dialga, while not as good a wallbreaker as Mega Diancie or Mega Rayquaza, has quite a few distinct properties that make it good in the Balanced Hackmons metagame. Its unique Steel / Dragon typing provides a resistance to Flying and a neutrality to Fairy, corresponding to two of the more commonly used -ate abilities in Aerilate and Pixilate. Steel / Dragon is an interesting offensive typing as well, giving it unresisted coverage with just Tinted Lens and its STAB moves, with Dragon alone being unresisted itself outside of Fairy-types. Tinted Lens allows Dialga to lure in and deal massive damage to Steel-types such as Registeel and Aegislash, which rely on their resistances to take hits. Its bulk is decent, and its Special Attack is quite good, but it is a bit on the slow side. Pokemon with Imposter present a problem to it, requiring a Fairy-type Pokemon with Magnet Pull and Substitute to be dealt with reliably. Overall, Dialga is a massive threat when set up and can sweep unprepared teams with ease.

Most Used Moves

Tail Glow
57.8%
Recover
17.0%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
51.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc