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manaphy
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Manaphy

Seafaring Pokémon

Water

Born on a cold seafloor, it will swim great distances to return to its birthplace.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 100
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 100
Sp. Def 100
Speed 100
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Seafaring Pokémon
Height 0.3 m
Weight 1.4 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups Water1 ,Fairy
Mythical Pokémon

Sprites

manaphy Front Front
manaphy Back Back
manaphy Front Shiny Front Shiny
manaphy Back Shiny Back Shiny
manaphy Official Art Official Art
manaphy Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ubers Usage: 1.0%
Tail Glow Sweeper
Moves
Ice Beam / Grass Knot
Item
Leftovers / Life Orb
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 80
SpA 252
Spe 176
Defensive
Moves
Ice Beam / Grass Knot
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Calm
EVs
HP 240
SpA 164
SpD 104
Bulky Calm Mind
Moves
Ice Beam / Grass Knot
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 252
SpA 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Manaphy is often left in the dust in lieu of its fellow Uber Water-types Kyogre and Palkia. Manaphy absolutely needs rain support from Kyogre to do anything in Ubers, and both Kyogre and Palkia have much better offensive stats as well as movepools. Furthermore, Manaphy also has to compete with fellow rain abusers Kingdra and Kabutops, who both get Swift Swim to boost their Speed stats to astronomical levels. (Kingdra even gets Dragon-type STAB like Palkia.) Faced with these competitors, one may think that there is no reason to use Manaphy at all.

However, Manaphy does have a few tricks up its sleeve. Hydration, when used with Rest and rain support, allows Manaphy to instantly heal itself and remove any status condition, which no other Pokemon in Ubers can do. It may not be as immediately threatening as either Kyogre or Palkia, but its access to Tail Glow means it can power up faster than either of them. Manaphy is also much bulkier than Kingdra and Kabutops.

Its movepool is somewhat limited compared to its fellow Ubers and rain abusers, but what it has is just enough to make it a decent threat.

Most Used Moves

Surf
99.8%
Rest
97.1%
Ice Beam
87.6%
Calm Mind
80.6%
Tail Glow
14.7%
U-turn
5.5%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
90.0%
Nothing
0.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc