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mawile
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Mawile

Deceiver Pokémon

SteelFairy

A cunning and terrifying Pokémon, its cuteness makes opponents let down their guard—and then it swallows them whole with its huge jaws.

Base Stats

HP 50
Attack 85
Defense 85
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 55
Speed 50
Total 380

Type Effectiveness

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Details

Category Deceiver Pokémon
Height 0.6 m
Weight 11.5 kg
Base Exp 133
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Ground ,Fairy

Sprites

mawile Front Front
mawile Back Back
mawile Front Shiny Front Shiny
mawile Back Shiny Back Shiny
mawile Official Art Official Art
mawile Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Swords Dance
Item
Mawilite
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 92
Atk 252
Spe 164
All-out Attacker
Moves
Sucker Punch / Ice Punch
Brick Break / Fire Fang
Item
Mawilite
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 92
Atk 252
Spe 164
Substitute
Item
Mawilite
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 144
Atk 252
Spe 112

Strategy Overview

Mega Mawile is one of the strongest wallbreakers in the OU metagame. Solid coverage options like Knock Off, Ice Punch, Fire Fang, and Thunder Punch alongside a setup move in Swords Dance make Mega Mawile impossible to deal with defensively, while its access to Sucker Punch gives it the ability to threaten offensive teams. Its typing, combined with Intimidate, grants it many opportunities to either set up or just attack against common Pokemon such as Clefable, Tapu Bulu, and Tornadus-T, allowing it to punch holes in teams relatively consistently. However, because of its very poor Speed, Mega Mawile heavily relies on Sucker Punch to deal with faster threats, which allows Pokemon like Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, and Ash-Greninja to revenge kill it relatively consistently; hence, it struggles more against offensive teams that can overwhelm it before it can get a strong hit off. While Mega Mawile's typing is great, it does give Mega Mawile two weaknesses to extremely common types, namely Ground and Fire, making it vulnerable to common Pokemon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Garchomp, which are also bulky enough to take a +2 Sucker Punch. Finally, Mega Mawile has slight issues with picking correct coverage, as it can't always run what it wants.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc