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meowth
#052

Meowth

Scratch Cat Pokémon

Normal

It loves to collect shiny things. If it’s in a good mood, it might even let its Trainer have a look at its hoard of treasures.

Base Stats

HP 40
Attack 45
Defense 35
Sp. Atk 40
Sp. Def 40
Speed 90
Total 290

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

persian Persian Lv. 28

Moves

Details

Category Scratch Cat Pokémon
Height 0.4 m
Weight 4.2 kg
Base Exp 58
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Urban
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

meowth Front Front
meowth Back Back
meowth Front Shiny Front Shiny
meowth Back Shiny Back Shiny
meowth Official Art Official Art
meowth Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 2.0%
All-out Attacker
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Technician
Nature
Naughty / Adamant
EVs
Atk 236
SpA 36
SpD 36
Spe 196

Strategy Overview

Meowth is a niche revenge killer with the combination of Technician-boosted Fake Out + Feint to handle Choice Scarf users like Vulpix, Porygon, and Mienfoo offensively. It can also check frail fast threats like Abra and Grookey. It also has a great matchup against hyper offense teams like sun, Spikes-stack, and dual screens due to its ability to waste turns and cripple frail sweepers. Meowth can threaten bulkier Pokemon such as Koffing and Staryu with Fake Out into Double-Edge, if these have been chipped or hit with Knock Off beforehand, allowing it to threaten bulky offense teams. However, Meowth is extremely frail and vulnerable to fainting if it cannot KO the foe, and priority users like Grookey can easily revenge kill it if they survive Feint. Pokemon with Regenerator such as Mareanie and Foongus, as well as Steel-types like Pawniard and Ferroseed, can play around Meowth to negate progress. Most importantly, however, Meowth is almost entirely outclassed as a revenge killer by Grookey, which has much stronger priority in Grassy Glide and can opt to run Fake Out if necessary.

Most Used Moves

Fake Out
98.4%
Feint
93.7%
U-turn
46.4%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
94.5%
Nothing
0.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc