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sneasel
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Sneasel

Sharp Claw Pokémon

DarkIce

Sneasel scales trees by punching its hooked claws into the bark. This Pokémon seeks out unguarded nests and steals eggs for food while the parents are away.

Base Stats

HP 55
Attack 95
Defense 55
Sp. Atk 35
Sp. Def 75
Speed 115
Total 430

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Sharp Claw Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 28.0 kg
Base Exp 86
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 35
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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

Competitive

zu Usage: 7.5%
Fast Attacker
Item
Heavy-Duty Boots
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Tera Type
IceGhost
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Tera Type
Ice

Strategy Overview

With its blisteringly fast Speed and a deadly STAB combination, Sneasel carves a place for itself in ZU as a powerful wallbreaker and cleaner. STAB Knock Off makes Sneasel excellent at forcing progress, especially since the primary Knock Off absorber, Dipplin, fears its Ice-type attacks, and it outruns many already fast threats like Charizard, Shaymin, and Virizion. However, Sneasel's paper-thin defenses mean it crumples to most strong neutral attacks and, combined with its many weaknesses, give it near to no defensive utility outside of switching into Psychic-type attacks. Sneasel also can be left wanting in power and struggles to break past walls like Regirock and Orthworm. Choice Band sets don't have this problem but are vulnerable to entry hazards and very prediction reliant. Lastly, Sneasel is incredibly vulnerable to getting revenge killed by most Choice Scarf users in the tier, like Passimian, Sneasel-Hisui, and Typhlosion, as well as priority attacks such as Mach Punch from Hitmontop.

Most Used Moves

Knock Off
100.0%
Ice Shard
97.6%
Low Kick
12.0%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
29.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc