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quagsire
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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

Physical Wall
Moves
Toxic / Spikes
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Unaware
Nature
Relaxed
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

Quagsire is one of the best physical walls in the STABmons metagame because of Unaware, an excellent defensive typing that leaves it with only one weakness in Grass, and decent natural bulk. These attributes allow it to act as a blanket check to most setup sweepers. Its only weakness, Grass, is also rarely seen on physical attackers, and it has access to reliable recovery in Recover, which allows it to stay healthy. Thanks to these traits, Quagsire finds itself a home on many stall teams. However, it has mediocre Special Defense, making it ineffective at checking special attackers, and it generally lacks offensive presence. Its physical bulk is decent but not amazing, so it fails to wall more powerful physical attackers such as Life Orb Landorus-T and Azumarill. Quagsire's sets are also extremely predictable because they are usually all identical.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc