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vivillon
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Vivillon

Scale Pokémon

BugFlying

Vivillon with many different patterns are found all over the world. These patterns are affected by the climate of their habitat.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 52
Defense 50
Sp. Atk 90
Sp. Def 50
Speed 89
Total 411

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

spewpa Spewpa Lv. 9
vivillon Vivillon Lv. 12

Moves

Details

Category Scale Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 17.0 kg
Base Exp 185
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

vivillon Front Front
vivillon Back Back
vivillon Front Shiny Front Shiny
vivillon Back Shiny Back Shiny
vivillon Official Art Official Art
vivillon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 1.2%
Quiver Dance
Item
Flyinium Z / Leftovers
Ability
Compound Eyes
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Vivillon is able to distinguish itself from other setup sweepers with an accurate Sleep Powder courtesy of Compound Eyes, allowing it to cripple its checks or present itself with a safe opportunity to set up Quiver Dance. When combined with its passable offensive stats and ability to achieve multiple boosts, Vivillon is capable of becoming a potent setup sweeper. Unfortunately, Vivillon's terrible bulk compounded with a poor defensive typing that comes with a 4x weakness to Stealth Rock limits its opportunities to enter play and set up and makes it vulnerable to numerous priority users like Golisopod, Lycanroc-D, and Zygarde-10%. Furthermore, even after a boost, Vivillon fails to break past specially bulky Pokemon like Snorlax and Goodra as well as close the gap between particularly fast Choice Scarf users such as Flygon and Houndoom, which means it requires a considerable amount of preparation and team support to successfully pull off a sweep. Lastly, Vivillon contests with Pokemon like Ribombee and Yanmega as offensive Bug-types, as their superior Speed tiers and immediate offensive pressure can be used to break apart teams with more ease. Other setup sweepers such as Salazzle and Virizion require less support to function and are much harder to stop with boosts.

Most Used Moves

Hurricane
99.6%
Endeavor
80.5%
Bug Buzz
11.1%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc