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piloswine
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Piloswine

Swine Pokémon

IceGround

Its shaggy coat makes it unable to see. It checks surroundings with its sensitive nose instead.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 100
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 60
Speed 50
Total 450

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

piloswine Piloswine Lv. 33
mamoswine Mamoswine Ancient Power

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Swine Pokémon
Height 1.1 m
Weight 55.8 kg
Base Exp 158
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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

Competitive

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Physical Attacker
Item
Life Orb / Choice Band
Nature
Jolly / Adamant
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Ever since its introduction, Piloswine has been continually bashed as a bad Pokemon due to its terrible defensive typing, in addition to horrid Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed stats, which was particularly bad since Ice-type moves were entirely special attacks. However, the 4th generation changed Piloswine's fortunes by introducing the physical/special split and giving it Ice Shard and Ice Fang, as well as an evolution in Mamoswine. Despite being overshadowed by every other Ground-type, including its evolution, Piloswine has enough tools at its disposal to inflict damage in UU, thanks to its good Attack stat, decent physical bulk, and STAB moves.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc