#794

Buzzwole

Swollen Pokémon

BugFighting

This Ultra Beast appeared from another world. It shows off its body, but whether that display is a boast or a threat remains unclear.

Base Stats

HP 107

Attack 139

Defense 139

Sp. Atk 53

Sp. Def 53

Speed 79

Total 570

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

flying 4x fire 2x psychic 2x fairy 2x

Resistant to

fighting ½x ground ½x bug ½x grass ½x dark ½x

Abilities

Beast Boost

Evolution Chain

Buzzwole

Moves

Locations

Melemele Meadow

Ultra Space Ultra Jungle

Details

Category Swollen Pokémon

Height 2.4 m

Weight 333.6 kg

Base Exp 257

Growth Rate Slow

Capture Rate 45

Base Happiness 0

Gender Genderless

Habitat —

Egg Groups No Eggs

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

vgc2017 Usage: 6.4%

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Pummeling Buzzwole

Moves

Item

Fightinium Z

Nature

Adamant

EVs

HP 44

Atk 220

Def 4

SpD 140

Spe 100

Strategy Overview

Being one of the few viable Fighting-type Pokemon in the format, Buzzwole serves primarily as a check to popular Pokemon like Porygon2 and Snorlax.
107 / 139 physical bulk makes Buzzwole an exceptionally powerful physical tank that is easily able to absorb powerful moves like Arcanine's Flare Blitz.
Buzzwole's Attack stat is on par with Pheromosa's, enabling Buzzwole to dent teams with STAB-boosted Superpower.
Buzzwole has access to useful coverage options in Ice Punch and Poison Jab, which are essential in a format filled with Fairy- and Dragon-type Pokemon. With access to Superpower as well, Buzzwole can hit the Steel/Dragon/Fairy Core really hard single-handedly.
Its base 79 Speed makes it faster than Pokemon like Celesteela and Alolan Muk while slower than popular Pokemon like Arcanine and Tapu Lele, making this Pokemon beneficial on both Tailwind and Trick Room teams.
Buzzwole's rare Bug / Fighting typing helps it wall popular meta threats like Pheromosa, Kartana and Garchomp, which it can KO with its coverage options.
Its meager Special Defense causes it to be quickly weakened by any special attacker and puts it at risk of being KOed by even the weakest of super effective special attacks.
This Pokemon faces some competition from Hariyama as a Trick Room sweeper due to the latter's additional role as a Fake Out user.
While Buzzwole's typing may be advantageous against some attackers, it gives Buzzwole a 4x weakness to Flying-type moves; Flying-type moves are seldom seen in VGC 2017 however.