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swoobat
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Swoobat

Courting Pokémon

PsychicFlying

It emits sound waves of various frequencies from its nose, including some powerful enough to destroy rocks.

Base Stats

HP 67
Attack 57
Defense 55
Sp. Atk 77
Sp. Def 55
Speed 114
Total 425

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

swoobat Swoobat Happiness 160

Moves

Details

Category Courting Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 10.5 kg
Base Exp 149
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground ,Flying

Sprites

swoobat Front Front
swoobat Back Back
swoobat Front Shiny Front Shiny
swoobat Back Shiny Back Shiny
swoobat Official Art Official Art
swoobat Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

zu Usage: 2.1%
Substitute + Calm Mind
Item
Salac Berry
Ability
Simple
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Swoobat is a unique and potentially devastating sweeper that uses its amazing ability Simple as well as its access to Calm Mind and Stored Power to become a dangerous threat. A great Speed tier allows it to get the jump on much of the unboosted metagame, and in conjunction with Salac Berry and Simple, it enables it to outrun every switch-in in the tier. Swoobat's defensive typing and bulk are nothing to write home about, but its 4x resistance to Fighting and a Ground immunity can give it some setup opportunities against certain threats such as Silvally-Fighting and defensive Poliwrath as well as Torterra and Electivire Choice-locked into Earthquake. Unfortunately, Swoobat's Special Attack is poor until it picks up a Calm Mind, which can be a tall task thanks to its bad defenses and defensive typing. Said defensive typing leaves it open to common Dark-, Ice-, and Electric-type attacks from Silvally-Dark, Glaceon, and Electivire. Swoobat's poor bulk and reliance on getting to low health to activate Salac Berry also mean that priority attacks from Pokemon such as Kecleon and Swanna are a huge problem for it. Swoobat is also very predictable, so a smart player can see what is coming and react accordingly by keeping one answer for it alive. Swoobat's hit-or-miss nature means that it only gets one shot to sweep, so all answers for it must be dealt with before it even attempts to set up. As a result, Swoobat needs significant support from its team if it is to sweep.

Most Used Moves

Calm Mind
99.1%
Air Slash
58.1%
Psyshock
53.5%
Heat Wave
36.5%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
11.3%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc