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glalie
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Glalie

Face Pokémon

Ice

To protect itself, it clad its body in an armor of ice, made by freezing moisture in the air.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 80
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 80
Sp. Def 80
Speed 80
Total 480

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Face Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 256.5 kg
Base Exp 168
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Fairy ,Mineral

Sprites

glalie Front Front
glalie Back Back
glalie Front Shiny Front Shiny
glalie Back Shiny Back Shiny
glalie Official Art Official Art
glalie Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

battlespotsingles Usage: 1.1%
Welcome to Crystal Lake (Moody Booster)
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Moody
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 172
SpD 84
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Glalie finds a niche for itself in Battle Spot Singles with two very important traits in its ability Moody and access to Sheer Cold, an OHKO move no type is immune to. Glalie is able to effectively take advantage of Moody to gain boosts to all of its stats, making it faster, bulkier, more evasive, and more powerful. Additionally, it can fall back on Sheer Cold to get rid of almost every single Pokemon in the metagame. While Glalie's stats may be mediocre, they are just high enough to get by; for example, it is just fast enough to set up Substitutes in front of Pokemon like Dragonite, Cresselia, Suicune, Rotom-W, and Venusaur, and it only needs a +1 boost to its Speed to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame bar Mega Alakazam and Mega Aerodactyl. This means that, with a bit of luck, Glalie can fish for Moody boosts against almost anything. Glalie is also fantastic against stall or defensively oriented teams. Since those teams are typically slower, Glalie does not have to rely on lucky boosts to its Speed and can immediately become a threat. However, Glalie's Ice typing leaves it with no useful resistances and with many weaknesses to common offensive types, such as Fighting, Fire, and Rock. This means that unless it is behind a Substitute, Glalie is quite vulnerable to being KOed. Most notably, Glalie is weak to several common priority moves such as Bullet Punch, Mach Punch, and Vacuum Wave, all of which have common users such as Scizor, Breloom, and Lucario. This means that even if Glalie has Speed boosts, it can easily be picked off by these moves. Moody can also be incredibly unreliable, as Speed and defensive drops can spell doom for Glalie, and it doesn't benefit at all from an Attack or accuracy boost. Sometimes, Glalie will lose simply because it just got the wrong boosts, and there's nothing you can do about that. However, if luck is on your side, Glalie can beat almost anything.

Most Used Moves

Protect
99.0%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
98.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc