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magearna
#801

Magearna

Artificial Pokémon

SteelFairy

This artificial Pokémon, constructed more than 500 years ago, can understand human speech but cannot itself speak.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 95
Defense 115
Sp. Atk 130
Sp. Def 115
Speed 65
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Artificial Pokémon
Height 1.0 m
Weight 80.5 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 0
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Mythical Pokémon

Sprites

magearna Front Front
magearna Back Back
magearna Front Shiny Front Shiny
magearna Back Shiny Back Shiny
magearna Official Art Official Art
magearna Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

anythinggoes Usage: 2.2%
Specially Defensive Pivot
Item
Leftovers / Normalium Z
Nature
Sassy
EVs
HP 252
Def 4
SpD 252

Strategy Overview

Magearna offers a fantastic answer to Xerneas, Arceus-Dark, Yveltal, Deoxys-A, and Mega Mewtwo Y variants lacking Fire Blast that can also provide the team with momentum. It has support moves such as Heal Bell and Heart Swap at its disposal, which help it thrive in the Anything Goes metagame; the latter specifically makes Magearna a reliable Geomancy Xerneas and Calm Mind Arceus-Dark answer. Furthermore, Magearna's great defensive typing allows it to check Flying-types like Yveltal, Vivillon, and Arceus-Flying as well as Rock-types such as Tyranitar and Arceus-Rock. However, even with such valuable defensive utility, Magearna has a disadvantageous matchup against some important offensive threats in the tier such as Primal Groudon, Arceus-Ground, and Ho-Oh, the former two of which also stop it from using Volt Switch freely. Other Steel-types in the tier such as Necrozma-DM and Arceus-Steel compete with Magearna by offering different utility like Stealth Rock and reliable recovery. They can also use Magearna as setup fodder because of how weak it is. Since Magearna is forced to maximize its bulk, it sacrifices most of its offensive presence, making it a very passive Pokemon to have on a team.

Most Used Moves

Heal Bell
59.3%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
67.5%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc