Flygon
Mystic Pokémon
It hides itself by kicking up desert sand with its wings. Red covers shield its eyes from sand.
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Strategy Overview
Flygon is easily one of the best Pokemon in the RU tier thanks to its typing, movepool, and well-rounded stat distribution. Flygon's solid Attack and Speed in combination with its great offensive typing and access to U-turn means that it can easily run Choice sets. These sets are made even better by Flygon's incredible resilience to entry hazards, taking a negligible 6.25% from Stealth Rock thanks to its Ground typing and immunity to all other entry hazards because of Levitate. Flygon also has the high-powered STAB moves in order to make these kinds of sets very effective. However, Flygon's support movepool shouldn't be overlooked either. Thanks to access to Roost, a solid defensive typing, and its resilience to entry hazards, Flygon is arguably the most reliable entry hazard remover in the tier with Defog. All of this enables Flygon to find a home on a wide variety of RU teams without the need for a lot of team support. Flygon doesn't have many weaknesses to account for, but there are a few you should keep in mind. Well-rounded stats are great, but this leads to Flygon sometimes being a little underwhelming offensively or defensively. There are many physically bulky Water- and Grass-type Pokemon in RU that are capable of switching into Flygon multiple times to give it issues, regardless of the set it uses. Despite its otherwise good Speed, Flygon also is unable to outspeed key threats like Delphox, Sneasel, Virizion, and Jolteon without the help of a Choice Scarf. Finally, Flygon's typing does have a couple of holes in it defensively, most notably a 4x weakness to Ice in a tier where Sneasel, Mega Glalie, and Abomasnow are very serious threats to most teams.
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