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camerupt
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Camerupt

Eruption Pokémon

FireGround

CAMERUPT has a volcano inside its body. Magma of 18,000 degrees F courses through its body. Occasionally, the humps on this POKéMON’s back erupt, spewing the superheated magma.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 100
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 105
Sp. Def 75
Speed 40
Total 460

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

camerupt Camerupt Lv. 33

Moves

Details

Category Eruption Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 220.0 kg
Base Exp 161
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 150
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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

Competitive

Offensive Stealth Rock
Moves
Toxic / Substitute / Rock Slide / Nature Power
Item
Cameruptite
Ability
Sheer Force
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 132
SpA 252
Spe 124

Strategy Overview

Mega Camerupt is blessed with a unique typing that gives it a small niche as a pivot into Volt Switch users like Magearna, Tapu Koko, and Zapdos that other Ground-types may struggle to switch into for fear of their Ice-type coverage and the former two's STAB Fairy-type attacks. Mega Camerupt's offensive STAB combination gives very little in the way of defensive switch-ins, mainly limited to Chansey and Ground-immune Fire-resistant Pokemon like Mega Latias and Rotom-W. Mega Camerupt's typing is a double-edged sword with a weakness to Ground and a 4x weakness to Water-type moves. Even weak Water-type attacks from defensive Pokemon like Toxapex and Tapu Fini can threaten to dispatch Mega Camerupt, as well as hard hitters like Mega Swampert, Crawdaunt, and Ash Greninja; the latter two can even remove Mega Camerupt while Trick Room is up through priority attacks. Despite Mega Camerupt's positive matchups against many Fire-, Fairy-, and Electric-types, its bulk is nowhere near infallible, and it lacks recovery, meaning it can find it difficult to get in safely.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc