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doublade
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Doublade

Sword Pokémon

SteelGhost

When Honedge evolves, it divides into two swords, which cooperate via telepathy to coordinate attacks and slash their enemies to ribbons.

Base Stats

HP 59
Attack 110
Defense 150
Sp. Atk 45
Sp. Def 49
Speed 35
Total 448

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Sword Pokémon
Height 0.8 m
Weight 4.5 kg
Base Exp 157
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

doublade Front Front
doublade Back Back
doublade Front Shiny Front Shiny
doublade Back Shiny Back Shiny
doublade Official Art Official Art
doublade Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

almostanyability Usage: 13.8%
Swords Dance
Moves
Shadow Claw / Iron Head / Gyro Ball
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Flash Fire / Regenerator / Levitate
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 248
Atk 252
SpD 8

Strategy Overview

Doublade is a staple in the Almost Any Ability metagame, standing out as one of the best checks to nearly every physical attacker in the format with its high physical bulk. Its excellent typing gives it a wide range of resistances and immunities, including to Flying-, Fairy-, and Ice-type moves, making it resist all three common types of priority moves as well as allowing it to spinblock with its immunity to Normal-type moves. Doublade can choose between three excellent abilities in Flash Fire, Regenerator, and Levitate, all of which change the way opposing teams are forced to deal with Doublade. It can even function as a late-game sweeper with Swords Dance, making it far less passive than most other walls. Doublade is only held back by its lack of recovery, its severe weakness to Knock Off, its somewhat mediocre Special Defense, and how easily it's walled by the metagame's most common defensive Pokemon.

Most Used Moves

Iron Head
16.5%
Gyro Ball
10.2%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
99.3%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc