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swablu
#333

Swablu

Cotton Bird Pokémon

NormalFlying

For some reason, it likes to land on people’s heads softly and act like it’s a hat.

Base Stats

HP 45
Attack 40
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 40
Sp. Def 75
Speed 50
Total 310

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

altaria Altaria Lv. 35

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Cotton Bird Pokémon
Height 0.4 m
Weight 1.2 kg
Base Exp 62
Growth Rate Slow Then Very Fast
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Flying ,Dragon

Sprites

swablu Front Front
swablu Back Back
swablu Front Shiny Front Shiny
swablu Back Shiny Back Shiny
swablu Official Art Official Art
swablu Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 0.1%
Cotton Guard
Moves
Cotton Guard / Heat Wave
Agility / Heat Wave
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 156
Atk 196
SpD 156

Strategy Overview

Swablu has great Special Defense and a wonderful ability in Natural Cure, which makes it a fine pivot into Scald and Thunder Wave users. Its Defense is somewhat lackluster when not invested in, but access to great boosting options in Cotton Guard and Agility make up for this. The combination of these two moves grants Swablu the ability to sweep and otherwise threaten offense teams. Access to recovery in Roost gives Swablu the ability to make use of these boosting options while also continually checking Abra. However, Swablu suffers from weak offensive stats, although this is partially compensated for by high Base Power attacks and a limited but adequate offensive movepool.

Most Used Moves

Roost
97.8%
Moonblast
40.0%
Heat Wave
30.9%
Heal Bell
30.8%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
91.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc