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durant
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Durant

Iron Ant Pokémon

BugSteel

They attack in groups, covering themselves in steel armor to protect themselves from Heatmor.

Base Stats

HP 58
Attack 109
Defense 112
Sp. Atk 48
Sp. Def 48
Speed 109
Total 484

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Iron Ant Pokémon
Height 0.3 m
Weight 33.0 kg
Base Exp 169
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

durant Front Front
durant Back Back
durant Front Shiny Front Shiny
durant Back Shiny Back Shiny
durant Official Art Official Art
durant Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

uu Usage: 0.6%
Hone Claws
Item
Steelium Z
Ability
Hustle
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

On paper, Durant appears to have all the tools to make it a formidable wallbreaker, with good Speed and Attack, access to Hustle, and Hone Claws to boost Attack and make up for the accuracy issues arising from Hustle. Additionally, good coverage combined with a good offensive typing theoretically let it threaten common defensive archetypes relying on traditional Steel-type checks like Cobalion and Rotom-H, setting it apart from Scizor. However, Durant's bad defensive stats and good, but not great, Speed tier leave it vulnerable to faster threats like Mega Manectric and common Choice Scarf users like Togekiss, and it is unable to perform tasks typically assigned to Steel-types, such as being able to pivot into resisted attacks from prominent threats like Celebi. These factors combined with the massive accuracy issues arising from Hustle while unboosted leave it outclassed by other more reliable Steel-type setup users with a better ability to threaten those faster Pokemon with priority, like Scizor and Lucario, or those with more defensive utility, like Cobalion.

Most Used Moves

Iron Head
99.7%
X-Scissor
73.8%
Crunch
33.0%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
39.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc