Pinsir
Stag Beetle Pokémon
It grips prey with its pincers until the prey is torn in half. What it can’t tear, it tosses far.
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Strategy Overview
Pinsir is one of the only notable offensive Bug-types in the tier, possessing a high Attack stat alongside good coverage and Swords Dance, as well as good offensive abilities in Mold Breaker and Moxie: the former allows Pinsir to bypass Levitate and Unaware, making it trickier to check, and also allows Stealth Rock Pinsir to disrupt any team reliant on Xatu for entry hazard control, whereas the latter grants Pinsir snowballing potential. However, Pinsir's Speed is only decent, and its typing gives it weaknesses to all entry hazards and no useful resistances; moreover, while it has the bulk to take some Fighting-type attacks, Pinsir cannot do much to Fighting-types in return. This means Pinsir is more of a glass cannon than it appears to be at first. The Base Power of Pinsir's attacks can also leave a bit to be desired, with its best attack in STAB X-Scissor having only a mediocre 80 Base Power, much lower than that of the STAB moves of most other common attacking types such as Fighting, Fire, and Normal.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc