Piloswine
Swine Pokémon
Piloswine is covered by a thick coat of long hair that enables it to endure the freezing cold. This Pokémon uses its tusks to dig up food that has been buried under ice.
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Strategy Overview
With its impressive stats, versatile movepool, good typing, and notable ability, Piloswine cements itself as one of the premier staples of the metagame. All these traits allow it to function as an excellent wallbreaker, entry hazard setter, revenge killer, and Thunder Wave absorber. As a hazard setter, being unsusceptible to Taunt owing to its ability is a major plus point. While Eviolite provides bulk and flexibility, Choice Band enables Piloswine to capitalize on its unresisted STAB combination to dismantle opposing teams. However, despite its strength and bulk, it lacks longevity due to the absence of non-Rest recovery moves and faces competition from other Stealth Rock setters like Tinkatuff and Dunsparce, which have relatively better longevity, better matchup against the tier's premier hazard removal option in Quaxwell, and greater overall utility.
Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc