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hydreigon
#635

Hydreigon

Brutal Pokémon

DarkDragon

There are a slew of stories about villages that were destroyed by Hydreigon. It bites anything that moves.

Base Stats

HP 92
Attack 105
Defense 90
Sp. Atk 125
Sp. Def 90
Speed 98
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

zweilous Zweilous Lv. 50
hydreigon Hydreigon Lv. 64

Moves

Details

Category Brutal Pokémon
Height 1.8 m
Weight 160.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 35
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Dragon

Sprites

hydreigon Front Front
hydreigon Back Back
hydreigon Front Shiny Front Shiny
hydreigon Back Shiny Back Shiny
hydreigon Official Art Official Art
hydreigon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Life Orb
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Hydreigon is a decent role compression choice, possessing some much appreciated resistances to common offensive types, such as Ghost, Water, and Fire, while also being immune to Psychic and Ground. In a pinch, it can provide the utility of both Yveltal and Eternatus while also checking Groudon. Hydreigon differentiates itself from offensive Eternatus with Nasty Plot, making it a terrifying attacker with very few defensive answers. Sadly, Hydreigon can never be a team's only answer to the threats it checks because of its middling bulk, leading to it stacking weaknesses on teams and competing heavily with Eternatus, which is much more defensively stable. Additionally, Hydreigon is very reliant on Nasty Plot to effectively wallbreak, and it struggles to safely set up because of its poor bulk, its mediocre Speed, and the recoil damage from Life Orb, making it easy to revenge kill too. Lastly, because Draco Meteor harshly drops Hydreigon's Special Attack, Hydreigon cannot repeatedly use its strongest attack and must rely on its teammates to clean up.

Most Used Moves

Roost
14.7%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
15.6%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc