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quagsire
#195

Quagsire

Water Fish Pokémon

WaterGround

It has a sluggish nature. It lies at the river’s bottom, waiting for prey to stray into its mouth.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 85
Defense 85
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 65
Speed 35
Total 430

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

quagsire Quagsire Lv. 20
clodsire Clodsire Lv. 20

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Water Fish Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 75.0 kg
Base Exp 151
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups Water1 ,Ground

Sprites

quagsire Front Front
quagsire Back Back
quagsire Front Shiny Front Shiny
quagsire Back Shiny Back Shiny
quagsire Front ♀ Front ♀
quagsire Back ♀ Back ♀
quagsire Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
quagsire Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
quagsire Official Art Official Art
quagsire Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 1.7%
Unaware Wall
Moves
Toxic / Encore
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Unaware
Nature
Relaxed
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

With its great defensive typing and fantastic ability in Unaware combined with decent physical bulk and access to reliable recovery, Quagsire has fashioned itself a clear niche in OU as a physical wall capable of taking on fearsome setup sweepers such as Belly Drum Azumarill, Mega Scizor, Mega Altaria, and Mega Charizard X. With Scald and Recover, it can stall out a good number of physical attackers in the tier, and a range of other move options means that it has very good defensive utility. Its Water / Ground typing gives it four resistances and an immunity to Electric, which, combined with its neutrality to Ice, makes it an excellent stop to momentum-grabbing Electric-types such as Raikou and Mega Manectric. It has only one weakness, but it is a 4x weakness to Grass, which means that it can be caught out by coverage moves such as Mega Metagross's Grass Knot. Additionally, while Quagsire can be very effective in a physically defensive role, its special bulk is somewhat lacking, and it can be 2HKOed by even relatively weak special moves. It also has underwhelming stats all-around, which prevent it from walling some of the most powerful physical attackers in the tier, and it is severely hindered by status ailments, as the chip damage from burn and poison can cripple it as an effective wall. Lastly, it faces competition from the other main Unaware user in OU, Clefable, as, while Quagsire checks physical threats more effectively, Clefable has better special bulk and can bring far more general utility to a team.

Most Used Moves

Recover
98.2%
Scald
95.2%
Toxic
90.1%
Haze
78.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
99.5%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc