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archeops
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Archeops

First Bird Pokémon

RockFlying

Although apparently able to fly, they tended to run along the ground, averaging speeds of roughly 25 mph.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 140
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 112
Sp. Def 65
Speed 110
Total 567

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

archeops Archeops Lv. 37

Moves

Details

Category First Bird Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 32.0 kg
Base Exp 177
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Flying ,Water3

Sprites

archeops Front Front
archeops Back Back
archeops Front Shiny Front Shiny
archeops Back Shiny Back Shiny
archeops Official Art Official Art
archeops Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

1v1 Usage: 0.4%
Choice Band
Moves
Heat Wave / Earthquake
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Archeops's great offensive typing coupled with a mammoth Attack stat, Choice Band, and access to high-Base Power STAB and coverage moves like Head Smash and Outrage paves its way for being a fast powerful attacker. Its base 110 Speed stat lets it outspeed top-tier threats including Mega Charizard X, Mega Charizard Y, non-Choice Scarf Garchomp, Durant, Mega Pinsir, and Speed tie with Jumpluff. However, its typing leaves it weak to Water, Steel, and Rock, all of which are common attacking types, leaving it vulnerable to Mega Gyarados, Mega Metagross, and Mega Tyranitar. Archeops is also very frail, so if it fails to KO the opposing Pokemon, it's most likely going to lose. This also makes it lose against faster Pokemon like Naganadel and Mega Lopunny, Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z and Victini, as well as every Sturdy Pokemon like Golem, Donphan, Magnezone, and Sawk, all of which are very common. Archeops is also highly reliant on Head Smash for KOing foes, which is unreliable due to its relatively low 80% accuracy. Finally, its horrendous ability in Defeatist does it no favors, making matchups on Pokemon it could potentially 2HKO like offensive Mega Venusaur set-dependent, if they can live an attack and activate Defeatist, as well as harming the matchup against stall Pokemon like Porygon2 and Chansey.

Most Used Moves

Fly
80.7%
Outrage
73.7%
Heat Wave
41.8%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc