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pelipper
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Pelipper

Water Bird Pokémon

WaterFlying

Its spacious beak is large enough for a small child to fit right inside.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 50
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 70
Speed 65
Total 440

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Water Bird Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 28.0 kg
Base Exp 154
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Sea
Egg Groups Water1 ,Flying

Sprites

pelipper Front Front
pelipper Back Back
pelipper Front Shiny Front Shiny
pelipper Back Shiny Back Shiny
pelipper Official Art Official Art
pelipper Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Offensive Support
Item
Focus Sash / Damp Rock
Ability
Drizzle
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Pelipper is a unique rain setter that has several tools over Politoed that help it function both as a self-sufficient weather setter and weather support for rain setups. The Flying typing allows Pelipper to threaten the Grass-types that shut down rain sweepers otherwise, with Hurricane's damage output and coverage giving it to notable offensive presence. U-turn also allows it to pivot into a rain sweeper more safely than Politoed and can help it maintain momentum against opposing weather setters. Pelipper's stats are generally underwhelming though, relegating it solely to a support role on teams utilizing rain sweepers such as Kingdra.

Below is a sample set. This sets is likely to be the standard, but it will be expanded upon and updated as the metagame progresses.

Most Used Moves

U-turn
99.0%
Scald
62.3%
Hurricane
59.8%
Ice Beam
42.1%
Icy Wind
39.6%
Toxic
36.3%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc