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combusken
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Combusken

Young Fowl Pokémon

FireFighting

COMBUSKEN toughens up its legs and thighs by running through fields and mountains. This POKéMON’s legs possess both speed and power, enabling it to dole out ten kicks in one second.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 85
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 85
Sp. Def 60
Speed 55
Total 405

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

combusken Combusken Lv. 16
blaziken Blaziken Lv. 36

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Young Fowl Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 19.5 kg
Base Exp 142
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

combusken Front Front
combusken Back Back
combusken Front Shiny Front Shiny
combusken Back Shiny Back Shiny
combusken Front ♀ Front ♀
combusken Back ♀ Back ♀
combusken Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
combusken Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
combusken Official Art Official Art
combusken Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

zu Usage: 9.4%
Special Attacker
Item
Fightinium Z / Life Orb
Ability
Speed Boost
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Swords Dance
Item
Firium Z / Fightinium Z
Ability
Speed Boost
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Thanks to a good offensive typing and an amazing ability in Speed Boost, Combusken is an excellent wallbreaker and sweeper in ZU. It is easily capable of snowballing, with it only taking two turns to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame and three to outspeed every Choice Scarf user as well. With good mixed attacking stats, Combusken can go special or physical, making it at least somewhat unpredictable. Thanks to its typing, Combusken is capable of beating traditional Fighting-type checks like Gourgeist-XL and Mr. Mime as well as Fire-type checks like Golem and Silvally-Water. However, Combusken is very frail, leaving it easily revenge killed by priority, especially by Aqua Jet from Swanna and Floatzel. In addition, its low base 55 Speed means that is it is very reliant on Protect and Speed Boost to outspeed a lot of Pokemon, for example leaving it outsped by Floatzel at +1 and Choice Scarf Electivire and Swanna at +2. Protect leaves it quite strapped for moveslots, which is an issue compounded by its poor movepool leaving it without a good physical Fighting-type move and reliant on Hidden Power and Z-Moves. Because of this, it very rarely has room to run Eviolite, exacerbating its already poor bulk.

Most Used Moves

Protect
80.5%
Low Kick
21.7%

Most Used Items

Firium Z
50.2%
Eviolite
25.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc