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omastar
#139

Omastar

Spiral Pokémon

RockWater

Its heavy shell is thought to be the reason this ancient Pokémon died out. It’s apparently a distant ancestor of Octillery.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 60
Defense 125
Sp. Atk 115
Sp. Def 70
Speed 55
Total 495

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

omastar Omastar Lv. 40

Moves

Details

Category Spiral Pokémon
Height 1.0 m
Weight 35.0 kg
Base Exp 173
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Sea
Egg Groups Water1 ,Water3

Sprites

omastar Front Front
omastar Back Back
omastar Front Shiny Front Shiny
omastar Back Shiny Back Shiny
omastar Official Art Official Art
omastar Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

monotype Usage: 0.6%
Shell Smash Sweeper (Rock)
Item
Air Balloon
Ability
Weak Armor
Nature
Timid / Modest
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Rock

Omastar is one of Rock's best special sweepers thanks to Shell Smash, allowing it to sweep in matchups like Ground and Steel. Its part Water typing makes it an important asset in the Ground matchup, being able to check Ground-types like Hippowdon, Landorus, and Mamoswine, and it also gives Omastar a helpful neutrality to Steel- and Water-type attacks. With its high Defense, Omastar can easily survive physical hits to take advantage of its ability Weak Armor, granting it +4 Speed when combined with a Shell Smash, which allows it to outspeed fast threats such as Sand Rush Excadrill and Choice Scarf Latios. Unfortunately, Omastar has a terrible Special Defense stat, forcing it to rely on sand's Special Defense boost to set up against most special attackers and leaving it vulnerable to being revenge killed by Choice Scarf users like Nihilego and Gengar. After a single Shell Smash, it still ends up being outsped by common Choice Scarf Pokemon like Nihilego and Victini due to its low base 55 Speed. Its Rock / Water typing gives it a 4x weakness to Grass-type attacks, as well as other common attacking types like Ground, Fighting, and Electric. Omastar is consistently walled by specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey and Mantine and finds a lot of difficulty setting up in matchups outside of Ground and Steel.

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
93.0%
Surf
64.3%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
10.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc