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mawile
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Mawile

Deceiver Pokémon

SteelFairy

It uses its docile-looking face to lull foes into complacency, then bites with its huge, relentless jaws.

Base Stats

HP 50
Attack 85
Defense 85
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 55
Speed 50
Total 380

Type Effectiveness

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Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Deceiver Pokémon
Height 0.6 m
Weight 11.5 kg
Base Exp 133
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Ground ,Fairy

Sprites

mawile Front Front
mawile Back Back
mawile Front Shiny Front Shiny
mawile Back Shiny Back Shiny
mawile Official Art Official Art
mawile Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Mega Attacker
Item
Mawilite
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 252
Atk 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

In previous generations, Mawile was always a disappointing package of a Pokemon, with cool abilities and an interesting movepool but without the tools needed to use them due to its horrid base stat total. Gen 6 was awfully kind to Mawile however, giving it a very useful secondary typing in Fairy and a Mega Evolution that boosts its Attack to obscene levels with not only a stat boost but the coveted Huge Power. Life isn't perfect for Mawile, as its two weaknesses are both extremely common, it's painfully slow, and it's plagued by the common Intimidate and Will-O-Wisp, but it's more than powerful enough to pull its weight. Mawile is now a Pokemon whose useful defensive typing, possession of Intimidate before Mega Evolution, and Attack stat that makes Kyurem-B blush post-Mega Evolution has it sitting pretty as one of the ruleset's best Pokemon.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc