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ho-oh
#250

Ho Oh

Rainbow Pokémon

FireFlying

Legends claim this POKéMON flies the world's skies con­ tinuously on its magnificent seven- colored wings.

Base Stats

HP 106
Attack 130
Defense 90
Sp. Atk 110
Sp. Def 154
Speed 90
Total 680

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Rainbow Pokémon
Height 3.8 m
Weight 199.0 kg
Base Exp 306
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 0
Gender Genderless
Habitat Rare
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

ho-oh Front Front
ho-oh Back Back
ho-oh Front Shiny Front Shiny
ho-oh Back Shiny Back Shiny
ho-oh Official Art Official Art
ho-oh Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Defensive
Moves
Toxic / Thunder Wave / Brave Bird
Whirlwind / Brave Bird
Item
Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability
Regenerator
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 248
Def 208
SpD 52
Choice Band
Moves
Whirlwind / Flare Blitz / Defog
Item
Choice Band
Ability
Regenerator
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 248
Atk 208
SpD 52
Offensive
Moves
Sacred Fire / Flare Blitz
Defog / Whirlwind / Substitute
Item
Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability
Regenerator
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 248
Atk 192
SpD 52
Spe 16

Strategy Overview

Heavy-Duty Boots rids Ho-Oh of its most crippling flaw, its Stealth Rock weakness, making it a critical defensive Pokemon in the metagame. Thanks to Regenerator, its huge Special Defense, and its good defensive typing, Ho-Oh is an important glue Pokemon for teambuilding, as it compresses a myriad of roles into one. Ho-Oh is able to check Xerneas lacking Ingrain and Marshadow without a Rock-type move and act as a great backup check to Calyrex-S. It is able to consistently switch into Necrozma-DM, the most common Stealth Rock setter in the tier, and use Defog, giving its team good entry hazard control. Offensively, Ho-Oh is no slouch either, as the Choice Band set is underprepared for and is able to punch serious holes into the vast majority of teams. Ho-Oh has become such a metagame-defining force that it's often specifically prepared for in teambuilding; Ho-Oh's massive weakness to Rock-type attacks can be easy to exploit, and it must constantly be on the lookout for Knock Off and Toxic users.

Most Used Moves

Defog
66.7%
Whirlwind
45.0%
Recover
26.5%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc