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sylveon
#700

Sylveon

Intertwining Pokémon

Fairy

It sends a soothing aura from its ribbonlike feelers to calm fights.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 65
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 110
Sp. Def 130
Speed 60
Total 525

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Intertwining Pokémon
Height 1.0 m
Weight 23.5 kg
Base Exp 184
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

sylveon Front Front
sylveon Back Back
sylveon Front Shiny Front Shiny
sylveon Back Shiny Back Shiny
sylveon Official Art Official Art
sylveon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Choice Specs Wallbreaker
Item
Choice Specs
Ability
Pixilate
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 236
Def 12
SpA 248
Spe 12
Calm Mind + Rest
Moves
Snore / Psyshock / Hidden Power Fire
Item
Chesto Berry / Leftovers
Ability
Pixilate
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 244
Def 172
SpA 68
SpD 4
Spe 20

Strategy Overview

The Intertwining Pokemon shows off its amazing Fairy typing, which gives it only weaknesses to Poison and Steel as well as an immunity to Dragon-type moves, allowing Sylveon to check Mega Salamence in the Battle Spot metagame. Sylveon is very straightforward and an easy-to-use Pokemon with Choice Specs. It has an excellent Special Attack stat and has great special bulk, which helps it deal enormous damage while taking hits from other special attackers. Sylveon also has access to Pixilate, which changes its Normal-type moves to Fairy, thus giving them STAB. This allows it to utilize a boosted Hyper Voice to hammer through many threats that don't resist it such as Garchomp and offensive Landorus-T.

However, Sylveon's Poison- and Steel-type weaknesses are exploited by many threats such as Mega Gengar, Aegislash, Excadrill, Mega Mawile, and Scizor. Despite Sylveon's impressive health, its physical bulk is too poor for it to take several powerful physical attacks. Sylveon also lacks a wide movepool, leaving its options limited and predictable against other players. Sylveon's Speed is very low as well, and it normally doesn't run much Speed investment either, so even defensive threats such as Heatran, Venusaur, and Suicune can outspeed it.

Most Used Moves

Psyshock
59.5%
Calm Mind
30.6%
Rest
29.2%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc