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mawile
#303

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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Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

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Locations

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

Wallbreaker
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Sheer Force
Nature
Naughty
EVs
Atk 252
SpA 4
Spe 252
Physical Wall
Item
Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Ability
Intimidate
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

Mawile is an overall average Pokemon that is able to serve as a wallbreaker or a physical wall. This versatility is thanks to its nice movepool, with decent offensive and utility moves such as Play Rough, Iron Head, and Stealth Rock, and two great abilities in Sheer Force and Intimidate. Furthermore, Mawile has a great offensive and defensive typing that offers good STAB coverage and a useful resistance to Stealth Rock and an immunity to Toxic Spikes. When serving as a wallbreaker, Mawile can break through many slower foes such as Drampa and Clefairy, and even certain faster ones such as Alolan Raichu thanks to Sucker Punch. As a physical wall, Mawile can take hits from many physical Normal-, Dark-, and Grass-types, including Stoutland and the physical variants of Skuntank, Spiritomb, and Shiftry, and either cripple them with Toxic or Knock Off or use the opportunity to set up Stealth Rock. Sadly, Mawile's stats are a large setback; though it has somewhat respectable Attack and Defense stats, Mawile is pretty slow and specially frail, making it relatively easy to KO for many offensive foes. These downsides furthermore leave it with a lot of competition in both of its potential roles, with other wallbreakers either offering a higher damage output and bulk, such as Aggron, or superior Speed, such as Skuntank and Stoutland, allowing them to threaten a larger number of Pokemon. Similarly, other physical walls such as Regirock and Metang can accomplish many of the same things Mawile can defensively, and even bring their own unique aspects in Regirock’s higher natural bulk and Metang’s access to Earthquake to punish switchins; both also have noticeably higher special bulk.

Most Used Moves

Iron Head
32.6%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
74.0%
Leftovers
16.4%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc