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elgyem
#605

Elgyem

Cerebral Pokémon

Psychic

It controls tremendous psychic power. Most reports of alien sightings are actually just people mistaking Elgyem for an alien.

Base Stats

HP 55
Attack 55
Defense 55
Sp. Atk 85
Sp. Def 55
Speed 30
Total 335

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

beheeyem Beheeyem Lv. 42

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Cerebral Pokémon
Height 0.5 m
Weight 9.0 kg
Base Exp 67
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Humanshape

Sprites

elgyem Front Front
elgyem Back Back
elgyem Front Shiny Front Shiny
elgyem Back Shiny Back Shiny
elgyem Official Art Official Art
elgyem Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 0.0%
Offensive Trick Room
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Analytic
Nature
Quiet
EVs
HP 236
SpA 240

Strategy Overview

Although it resists Fighting and has decent bulk, Elgyem has difficulty differentiating itself from Spritzee, an overall better offensive Trick Room user. Possessing a weakness to Knock Off and Sucker Punch is detrimental for Elgyem, especially compared to Spritzee’s resistance to Dark, and having to resort to Hidden Power to hit said Dark-types diminishes Elgyem’s offensive presence. Becoming Pursuit trapped by Pokemon such as Alolan Grimer is also annoying for Elgyem. Even Solosis, although it's not viable either, is better than Elgyem in performing this role due to Magic Guard and a higher Special Attack stat. While Elgyem is a better check to Abra than Spritzee and Analytic is quite a useful ability to for it to have, its ability works against itself under Trick Room, and Elgyem's strengths pale in comparison to the overwhelming number of advantages Spritzee has over it as an offensive Trick Room setter.

Most Used Moves

Psychic
81.6%
Recover
19.8%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
56.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc