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scizor
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Scizor

Pincer Pokémon

BugSteel

It uses its wings to adjust its body temperature. Otherwise, its metal body would become too hot and melt in the heat of battle.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 130
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 80
Speed 65
Total 500

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Pincer Pokémon
Height 1.8 m
Weight 118.0 kg
Base Exp 175
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 25
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

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

Competitive

Bulky Attacker
Moves
Bug Bite / Superpower
Protect / Roost
Item
Scizorite
Ability
Light Metal
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 252
Atk 136
SpD 36
Spe 84

Strategy Overview

Mega Scizor thrives thanks to a powerful Bullet Punch, which hits the common Fairy-types, Kyurem-B, and Tyranitar super effectively. With Swords Dance and a powerful priority attack, it does quite well blasting through the opposition. Thanks to a great defensive typing and solid defensive stats, opportunities to set up Swords Dance are fairly easy to come by. This also helps Mega Scizor retain its effectiveness in a metagame where Intimidate is quite common. Mega Scizor's moves tend to have pretty low Base Power, but that ends up somewhat working to its advantage thanks to Technician providing these moves with an extra boost. Bug Bite, its other common attack with somewhat low Base Power, also allows Mega Scizor to take advantage of the ubiquity of healing Berries such as Iapapa and Figy. However, Mega Scizor is rather slow; although this is somewhat mitigated by its primary attack having priority, if Psychic Terrain is set or the foe resists Steel-type moves, it's fairly easy to capitalize on Mega Scizor's low Speed. Since Psychic Terrain inhibits Mega Scizor's primary way of circumventing its problematic Speed tier, it rarely works on teams with Tapu Lele. Fire-type Pokemon and attacks are the largest obstacles Mega Scizor has to overcome, as they immediately shut it down. Aside from Fire- and Steel-types shutting Mega Scizor down, it otherwise does quite well against the majority of common Pokemon.

Most Used Moves

Bug Bite
92.2%
Protect
90.6%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
63.4%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc