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amaura
#698

Amaura

Tundra Pokémon

RockIce

It lived in cold areas in ancient times. It’s said that when Amaura whinnies, auroras appear in the night sky.

Base Stats

HP 77
Attack 59
Defense 50
Sp. Atk 67
Sp. Def 63
Speed 46
Total 362

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

aurorus Aurorus Lv. 39

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Tundra Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 25.2 kg
Base Exp 72
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Monster

Sprites

amaura Front Front
amaura Back Back
amaura Front Shiny Front Shiny
amaura Back Shiny Back Shiny
amaura Official Art Official Art
amaura Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 0.8%
Choice Scarf
Moves
Blizzard / Hyper Voice
Ancient Power / Hyper Beam
Item
Choice Scarf
Ability
Snow Warning / Refrigerate
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
HP 60
SpA 220
Spe 228

Strategy Overview

By virtue of its amazing offensive typing, which offers unresisted coverage alongside Earth Power, Amaura secures itself a niche in LC as a good offensive check to Flying-types and as a potent revenge killer with a Choice Scarf. Its access to two good abilities in Snow Warning, which grants it a 100% accurate Blizzard and chip damage on foes, and Refrigerate, which provides Amaura with an immensely powerful Hyper Voice and the ability to bypass Substitute, further bolsters its offensive presence. Furthermore, Amaura has a rather diverse special movepool, with access to useful moves like Thunderbolt, Earth Power, and Flash Cannon in addition to its STAB moves, which allows it to sufficiently cover most of the metagame. Unfortunately, despite its offensive prowess, Amaura has an absolutely awful defensive typing, with 4x weaknesses to Fighting- and Steel-type attacks, weaknesses to common priority moves such as Aqua Jet and Vacuum Wave, and a weakness to Stealth Rock. Amaura is also hurt by its poor Speed, which leaves it either reliant on a Choice Scarf to outspeed foes, or outsped and threatened by common Pokemon such as Mienfoo, Pawniard, and Diglett. Lastly, Amaura suffers from a general lack of power behind any of its Rock-type STAB attacks, which keeps it from hitting too hard with them unless used against targets that take super effective damage and at times can also limit its overall neutral coverage.

Most Used Moves

Blizzard
60.5%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
13.4%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc