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shroomish
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Shroomish

Mushroom Pokémon

Grass

It prefers damp places. By day it remains still in the forest shade. It releases toxic powder from its head.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 40
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 40
Sp. Def 60
Speed 35
Total 295

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Mushroom Pokémon
Height 0.4 m
Weight 4.5 kg
Base Exp 59
Growth Rate Fast Then Very Slow
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Fairy ,Plant

Sprites

shroomish Front Front
shroomish Back Back
shroomish Front Shiny Front Shiny
shroomish Back Shiny Back Shiny
shroomish Official Art Official Art
shroomish Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 0.6%
Tank
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Adamant / Brave
EVs
HP 36
Atk 196
Def 116
SpA 36
SpD 116
Defensive
Moves
Protect / Hidden Power Fire
Leech Seed / Toxic
Item
Toxic Orb
Ability
Poison Heal
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 196
Def 196
SpD 116

Strategy Overview

Shroomish is one of three Pokemon in Little Cup with access to the move Spore, which is the only sleep-inducing move with perfect accuracy. Shroomish also boasts decent defenses and a useful defensive typing which allows it to wall common Pokemon such as Drilbur and Chinchou. Shroomish also gets access to some decent attacks such as Giga Drain and Drain Punch in addition to Synthesis, meaning it can recover off damage quite easily. Poison Heal allows Shroomish to recover even more health as well as act as a status absorber, albeit at the cost of the defensive boost given by Eviolite. However, Shroomish isn't spectacular at dishing out hits, as its offensive stats are unimpressive and it is also easily walled by Pokemon such as Foongus, Croagunk, Trubbish, and Ferroseed. Although its defensive typing can help it out against Ground- and Water-type opponents, Shroomish's glaring weaknesses to Pokemon such as Fletchling and Foongus means that they will have little trouble beating it with their super effective STAB moves.

Most Used Moves

Spore
94.9%
Seed Bomb
69.1%
Synthesis
13.2%

Most Used Items

Toxic Orb
93.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc