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jirachi
#385

Jirachi

Wish Pokémon

SteelPsychic

A legend states that JIRACHI will make true any wish that is written on notes attached to its head when it awakens. If this POKéMON senses danger, it will fight without awakening.

Base Stats

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

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Wish Pokémon
Height 0.3 m
Weight 1.1 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 100
Gender Genderless
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups No Eggs
Mythical Pokémon

Sprites

jirachi Front Front
jirachi Back Back
jirachi Front Shiny Front Shiny
jirachi Back Shiny Back Shiny
jirachi Official Art Official Art
jirachi Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 18.2%
Superachi (Offensive Calm Mind)
Moves
Fire Punch / Ice Punch
Hidden Power Grass / Thunderbolt
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Timid / Modest
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252
Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Sassy / Calm
EVs
HP 252
Def 76
SpD 180
Wish + Calm Mind
Moves
Ice Punch / Psychic
Thunder / Thunderbolt / Fire Punch
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 224
Spe 32
Substitute + Calm Mind
Moves
Psychic / Ice Punch
Fire Punch / Thunderbolt
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
HP 252
Def 40
SpA 80
Spe 136
Mixed
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Mild
EVs
Atk 136
SpA 236
Spe 136

Strategy Overview

Jirachi is an extremely versatile Pokemon thanks to its great stats, movepool, and typing. As a Calm Mind sweeper, it distinguishes itself from Suicune and Celebi by virtue of its part-Steel typing, which grants it immunity to passive damage from sand and Toxic and enables it to take advantage of Choice Band users such as Salamence, Aerodactyl, and Tyranitar locked into their STAB attack more easily. Furthermore, Jirachi's colorful array of coverage moves makes it difficult to handle defensively, and its access to Wish can invalidate special sponges such as Blissey as answers while enhancing Jirachi's defensive capabilities. Jirachi also has some niche options at its disposal and can run physical sets to lure out and eliminate Pokemon that typically scare it out such as Tyranitar and Snorlax.

On the other hand, Jirachi is held back by a very exploitable weakness to Earthquake, which makes it prone to being trapped and taken down by Dugtrio and allows metagame staples such as Tyranitar, Metagross, Swampert, Salamence, and Snorlax to potentially scare it off. While Jirachi has the needed coverage and support options to threaten all of these, it cannot fit each into a single set and thus will remain kept in check by some popular Pokemon.

Most Used Moves

Calm Mind
52.5%
Ice Punch
38.9%
Wish
36.8%
Protect
28.1%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
90.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc