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beartic
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Beartic

Freezing Pokémon

Ice

They love the cold seas of the north. They create pathways across the ocean waters by freezing their own breath.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 130
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 70
Sp. Def 80
Speed 50
Total 505

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

beartic Beartic Lv. 37

Moves

Details

Category Freezing Pokémon
Height 2.6 m
Weight 260.0 kg
Base Exp 177
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

beartic Front Front
beartic Back Back
beartic Front Shiny Front Shiny
beartic Back Shiny Back Shiny
beartic Official Art Official Art
beartic Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

zu Usage: 1.4%
Snow Sweeper
Moves
Icicle Spear / Icicle Crash
Earthquake / Substitute
Item
Loaded Dice / Life Orb / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability
Slush Rush
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252
Tera Type
FightingGround

Strategy Overview

Under snow, Beartic is a chillingly threatening sweeper, boasting wide coverage and frightening offensive power while outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame. The Defense boost in snow allows it to tank physical attacks like Passimian's Close Combat and Lycanroc's Stone Edge. Beartic relies on Abomasnow to provide snow, and it forms a deadly offensive core with it, as Abomasnow's Aurora Veil makes Beartic even more difficult to take down. Beartic, however, is hindered by its low Speed and awful defensive typing; even under snow, it can be outsped by faster Choice Scarf users like Hisuian Sneasel and Typhlosion. Even with the Defense boost and Aurora Veil support, Beartic sports minimal defensive utility, owing to its vulnerability to all residual damage and lack of resistances if not running Heavy-Duty Boots, and it also stacks weaknesses with Abomasnow. Outside of snow, Beartic is extremely slow and easy to revenge kill without Terastallization, requiring significant support to perform well as a setup sweeper.

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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc