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breloom
#286

Breloom

Mushroom Pokémon

GrassFighting

Its short arms stretch when it throws punches. Its technique is equal to that of pro boxers.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 130
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 60
Speed 70
Total 460

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Mushroom Pokémon
Height 1.2 m
Weight 39.2 kg
Base Exp 161
Growth Rate Fast Then Very Slow
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Fairy ,Plant

Sprites

breloom Front Front
breloom Back Back
breloom Front Shiny Front Shiny
breloom Back Shiny Back Shiny
breloom Official Art Official Art
breloom Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Technician Attacker
Moves
Rock Tomb / Swords Dance
Item
Life Orb / Focus Sash
Ability
Technician
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Breloom has a lot of positive aspects, including its movepool, ability, and typing. For one, it has Spore, the only 100% accurate sleep move in the game, which can cripple anything that isn't a Grass-type. This allows Breloom to put pressure on at least one of its checks or counters, making playing around this Pokemon a pain. Also, many of Breloom's other moves benefit greatly from Technician including Rock Tomb, Bullet Seed, and Mach Punch. It can even put slower threats to sleep and capitalize on the free turns with Swords Dance, sweeping weakened teams with Mach Punch. Along with this, Breloom has just the offensive typing it needs to check common offensive threats Colossoil and Kyurem-B.

However, Breloom's horrible defensive typing and stats mean it really struggles against anything faster than it that resists Mach Punch, such as Talonflame, Cawmodore, and Latios, among many, many others. Its typing particularly suffers against Grass-types that can absorb every move coming at them including Necturna and Mega Venusaur. This, on top of its very subpar Speed tier, means that a lot of common Pokemon including Mega Charizard X, Mega Charizard Y, Tornadus-T, and Latios can outspeed and KO it easily, making Breloom overly reliant on Mach Punch.

Most Used Moves

Spore
96.1%
Rock Tomb
62.0%

Most Used Items

Nothing
0.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc