#758
Salazzle
Toxic Lizard Pokémon
PoisonFire
For some reason, only females have been found. It creates a reverse harem of male Salandit that it lives with.
Base Stats
HP 68
Attack 64
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 111
Sp. Def 60
Speed 117
Total 480
Type Effectiveness
Abilities
Held Items
Forms
Evolution Chain
Moves
Locations
Details
Sprites
Front
Back
Front Shiny
Back Shiny
Official Art
Official Art (Shiny)Competitive
Offensive Support
Item
Focus Sash
Ability
Oblivious
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Strategy Overview
- Access to Fake Out enables Salazzle to disrupt opposing teams by threatening to immobilize threats to itself and its teammates for a turn.
- Its typing grants it a strong STAB combination that threatens a variety of common Pokemon, including Kartana, Celesteela, Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, and Tapu Fini.
- At the same time, Salazzle is also threatened by a variety of common Pokemon, such as Garchomp, Alolan Marowak, Alolan Muk, and Araquanid.
- Its defenses leave much to be desired, making Salazzle highly dependent on Focus Sash in order to have any chance of taking a hit.
- Salazzle suffers from four-moveslot syndrome; it wishes it could run all of Fake Out, Flamethrower, Sludge Bomb, Protect, Encore, and Taunt, but it can only pick four of them.
- Furthermore, Salazzle has to choose between two situational abilities; most of the time, it may as well not have an ability at all.
- It also faces competition as a Fake Out user; Alolan Raichu in Electric Terrain and Weavile are both faster users of Fake Out.
Most Used Moves
Common Teammates
Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc