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tapu-bulu
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Tapu Bulu

Land Spirit Pokémon

GrassFairy

It pulls large trees up by the roots and swings them around. It causes vegetation to grow, and then it absorbs energy from the growth.

Base Stats

HP 70
Attack 130
Defense 115
Sp. Atk 85
Sp. Def 95
Speed 75
Total 570

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Land Spirit Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 45.5 kg
Base Exp 257
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 3
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups No Eggs
Legendary Pokémon

Sprites

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tapu-bulu Back Back
tapu-bulu Front Shiny Front Shiny
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tapu-bulu Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Grassium Z
Item
Grassium Z
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 180
Atk 92
SpD 60
Spe 176
Choice Scarf
Moves
Fling / Hidden Power Fire / Dazzling Gleam / Superpower
Taunt / Hidden Power Fire / Dazzling Gleam / Superpower
Item
Choice Scarf
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 84
Atk 180
Spe 244

Strategy Overview

Tapu Bulu has passable bulk to go with its Grass / Fairy typing, a decent movepool, and, most importantly, an excellent ability in Grassy Surge. It is able to tank some powerful hits, such as an Fake Out followed by Giga Impact from Mega Lopunny and Shattered Psyche from Tapu Lele, under Grassy Terrain. Tapu Bulu's Grass typing matches it up very well against Mega Gyarados, a very formidable and prevalent threat. It is also the slowest of all the Guardian Deities, which means that its Terrain activates the latest on the field and prevails for the first five turns of the battle. However, the absence of a good physical Fairy-type STAB move and a weakness to commonly used types like Fire, Flying, and Steel present major drawbacks to its usage. Its typing causes it to be easily KOed by Pokemon like Mega Charizard X, Flyinium Z Dragonite, and Mega Metagross. It also has a subpar Speed stat and just decent Special Defense. This leaves Tapu Bulu vulnerable to powerful special attacks like Porygon-Z's Hyper Beam and Choice Specs Greninja's Ice Beam before it gets the chance to land a hit on these Pokemon.

Most Used Moves

Megahorn
45.7%
Rock Tomb
38.9%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc