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ambipom
#424

Ambipom

Long Tail Pokémon

Normal

In their search for comfortable trees, they get into territorial disputes with groups of Passimian. They win about half the time.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 100
Defense 66
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 66
Speed 115
Total 482

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Evolution Chain

ambipom Ambipom Double Hit

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Long Tail Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 20.3 kg
Base Exp 169
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 100
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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

Competitive

1v1 Usage: 1.5%
Normalium Z
Item
Normalium Z
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Ambipom is a very strong attacker that can take out the majority of the most prominent Pokemon in 1v1. Its base 115 Speed allows it to use an Adamant nature and still outspeed base 100 Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X, Mega Charizard Y, and Mega Gardevoir. Ambipom uses its powerful Normal-type STAB moves Fake Out and Giga Impact in conjunction with Normalium Z to overpower common bulky offense threats like Mega Charizard X and Dragonite. Its access to Tickle allows it to take on a more defensive role to take out threats such as Mega Gyarados and Incineroar. However, Ambipom suffers from its lack of coverage, since using any other moveset would trade important matchups for less significant ones. Its Normal-type moves are easily walled by Rock-, Steel-, and Ghost-types such as Crustle, Magearna, and Mega Aggron, and coverage moves like Low Sweep and Fire Punch are not strong enough to deal with this issue. Ambipom also lacks sufficient Speed and bulk to beat other faster threats in the metagame such as Mega Lopunny and Zeraora. Ambipom also needs an Adamant nature to win most of its dominant matchups, thus losing against otherwise outsped Pokemon like Garchomp and Jumpluff.

Most Used Moves

Fake Out
100.0%
Tickle
78.5%
Low Sweep
58.7%
Nothing
38.0%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc