What Mega Evolution changes
Ampharos, number 181 in the National Dex and a Johto Pokémon,
holds Ampharosite to become Mega Ampharos,
taking its total from 510 to 610. The biggest single gain is 50 Sp. Atk, followed by 20 Attack. It also loses 10 Speed.
The typing changes: it gains Dragon, which rewrites every matchup below. Mega Evolving replaces Static and Plus with Mold Breaker.
What gets through
As Electric and Dragon, 4 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 6. The full board is above; the short version is that the
types listed under ×2 and ×4 are the ones worth planning around.
On the Regulation M-B ladder
Mega Ampharos is played on 0.22% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 137th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Dragon Pulse at 99.2%.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
Those figures come from Smogon's published usage statistics rather than from anything measured
here, and they describe what the ladder plays, not what is strongest.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: these are the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying
a damaging move of a type Mega Ampharos takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Blizzard (Ice, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 93 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Ampharos is 46th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 165, which is 10th
among Megas; its worst is Speed at 45, 83rd.
No other Mega Evolution has the Electric and Dragon typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
The unevolved Ampharos is itself on 0.05% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Ampharos would have
wanted from an item, it does not get. Drop it into the
team builder to see what the rest of the six then have to cover,
or take it to the damage calculator to find out whether those
165 points of
Special Attack actually change a
knockout.
