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cresselia
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Cresselia

Lunar Pokémon

Psychic

Shiny particles are released from its wings like a veil. It is said to represent the crescent moon.

Base Stats

HP 120
Attack 70
Defense 110
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 120
Speed 85
Total 580

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Lunar Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 85.6 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 100
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

cresselia Front Front
cresselia Back Back
cresselia Front Shiny Front Shiny
cresselia Back Shiny Back Shiny
cresselia Official Art Official Art
cresselia Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Defensive Support
Moves
Psychic / Lunar Dance
Lunar Dance / Thunder Wave / Trick Room / Toxic
Item
Rocky Helmet / Sitrus Berry / Wiki Berry
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

Cresselia is one of the most important defensive Pokemon of Battle Spot Singles, with an impressive amount of bulk and a good support movepool to take advantage of it. However, it has a severe lack of offensive presence, making it easy to set up on if Cresselia is unable to effectively cripple the threat. While Cresselia has a higher Special Defense stat, it has a harder time taking on special attackers, since many common ones like Aegislash hit it super effectively. This means Cresselia must sacrifice its physical bulk to take on special attackers more easily, making it difficult to check the physical threats like Mega Salamence that Cresselia is much more adapt at checking.

Below is a sample set. This set is likely to be the standard, but it will be expanded upon and updated as the metagame progresses.

Most Used Moves

Moonlight
92.1%
Psyshock
33.0%
Moonblast
31.1%
Toxic
29.2%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc