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piloswine
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Piloswine

Swine Pokémon

IceGround

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.

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

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

Offensive Stealth Rock
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 252
Atk 252
SpD 4
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Ability
Thick Fat
Nature
Adamant
EVs
0 [object Object]
1 [object Object]

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