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bronzor
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Bronzor

Bronze Pokémon

SteelPsychic

Ancient people believed that the pattern on Bronzor’s back contained a mysterious power.

Base Stats

HP 57
Attack 24
Defense 86
Sp. Atk 24
Sp. Def 86
Speed 23
Total 300

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Bronze Pokémon
Height 0.5 m
Weight 60.5 kg
Base Exp 60
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

bronzor Front Front
bronzor Back Back
bronzor Front Shiny Front Shiny
bronzor Back Shiny Back Shiny
bronzor Official Art Official Art
bronzor Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

nu Usage: 0.3%
Specially Defensive
Moves
Rest / Skill Swap
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Calm
EVs
HP 252
Def 4
SpD 252

Strategy Overview

Bronzor has a very unique role in NU, sporting great typing in tandem with Levitate, which allows it to check several prominent threats such as Jynx, Mesprit, Musharna, Tauros, Steelix, and Rhydon. Additionally, Bronzor has good bulk that's boosted further with Eviolite, making it very difficult to break past. All of these characteristics make it a valuable Pokemon for stall teams in particular thanks to the wide array of Pokemon it helps deal with, but it can also work on more balanced archetypes if necessary. However, Bronzor's main issues lie in general passivity and vulnerability to Fire- and Dark-types, especially Skuntank and Malamar, the former of which is immune to Toxic and is capable of Pursuit trapping Bronzor, while the latter couldn't care less about Toxic due to Rest. Furthermore, being forced to use Rest to recover any significant amount of HP, as well as being crippled severely by Knock Off, only makes matters worse. Said passivity and very low Speed also make Bronzor susceptible to Taunt.

Most Used Moves

Toxic
100.0%
Psywave
100.0%
Rest
100.0%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
100.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc