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delibird
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Delibird

Delivery Pokémon

IceFlying

It carries food rolled up in its tail. It has the habit of sharing food with people lost in mountains.

Base Stats

HP 45
Attack 55
Defense 45
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 45
Speed 75
Total 330

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Delivery Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 16.0 kg
Base Exp 116
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Water1 ,Ground

Sprites

delibird Front Front
delibird Back Back
delibird Front Shiny Front Shiny
delibird Back Shiny Back Shiny
delibird Official Art Official Art
delibird Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

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Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Ability
Hustle
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Choice Specs
Moves
Ice Beam / Blizzard
Hidden Power Grass / Hidden Power Electric
Item
Choice Specs
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

It has bad stats, a poor movepool, and a type combo that gives it many weaknesses to common attacks. A 4x weakness to Stealth Rock makes matters even worse, especially seeing as Rapid Spin would have been one of its greater assets. Throughout the UU metagame, you will find that Delibird is easily countered and any job you want it to do will probably be done better by something else. If you are running the Choice sets, ensure that you have solid Rapid Spin or anti-Stealth Rock support to ensure that Delibird can come in and fire off hits. Sadly, even if Smogon were to endorse a NU tier, Delibird still wouldn't be competitively viable. In short, there is almost always a better choice out there than Delibird.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc