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Archeops

First Bird Pokémon

RockFlying

They are intelligent and will cooperate to catch prey. From the ground, they use a running start to take flight.

Base Stats

HP 75

Attack 140

Defense 65

Sp. Atk 112

Sp. Def 65

Speed 110

Total 567

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

rock 2x steel 2x water 2x electric 2x ice 2x

Resistant to

normal ½x flying ½x poison ½x bug ½x fire ½x

Immune to

ground 0x

Abilities

Defeatist

Evolution Chain

Archen

→

Archeops Lv. 37

Moves

Details

Category First Bird Pokémon

Height 1.4 m

Weight 32.0 kg

Base Exp 177

Growth Rate Medium

Capture Rate 45

Base Happiness 70

Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀

Habitat —

Egg Groups Flying ,Water3

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 1.9%

RU NU 1V1

Suicide Lead

Moves

Item

Focus Sash

Nature

Naive

EVs

Atk 252

Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Archeops has a great Speed tier and access to Stealth Rock, Taunt, and Endeavor, all of which make it a great suicide lead for hyper offense teams. It outspeeds most relevant Taunt and Defog users, which can prevent entry hazards from being set up, and can even use Taunt and Endeavor to deal with stall teams. However, while Archeops seems able to run other sets, they are all unviable due to its bad defensive typing, which gives it a Stealth Rock weakness. Archeops's greatest downfall is its ability, Defeatist, which makes it unable to switch into even weak hits for fear of halving its offenses.