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medicham
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Medicham

Meditate Pokémon

FightingPsychic

It elegantly avoids attacks with dance-like steps, then launches a devastating blow in the same motion.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 60
Defense 75
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 75
Speed 80
Total 410

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Meditate Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 31.5 kg
Base Exp 144
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Humanshape

Sprites

medicham Front Front
medicham Back Back
medicham Front Shiny Front Shiny
medicham Back Shiny Back Shiny
medicham Front ♀ Front ♀
medicham Back ♀ Back ♀
medicham Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
medicham Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
medicham Official Art Official Art
medicham Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

cap Usage: 0.2%
All-Out Attacker
Item
Medichamite
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Mega Medicham has near-exclusive access to one of the most coveted abilities in the game, Pure Power, which raises its subpar base 100 Attack to the highest in the entire metagame. This bloated Attack stat, in combination with Mega Medicham's wide movepool and powerful STAB moves, makes it a very effective wallbreaker. Furthermore, Mega Medicham's decent base 100 Speed allows it to outspeed almost every relevant defensive Pokemon in the metagame, and its access to priority moves such as Fake Out and Bullet Punch gives it utility against offensive threats as a revenge killer.

Despite these great strengths, Mega Medicham is held back by its frailty, which limits what it can safely switch into and allows it to be revenge killed by faster threats. Mega Medicham's Speed, while useful against defensive threats, can't hold a candle to the fast-paced offensive threats populating the metagame, which causes an overreliance on priority to deal with them. Mega Medicham also has difficulty getting past some common defensive staples such as bulky Psychic-types, and it is forced to compete with other Fighting-types, such as Mega Gallade and Mega Lopunny, both of which boast great Speed tiers.

Most Used Moves

Ice Punch
100.0%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc