What Mega Evolution changes
Audino, number 531 in the National Dex and a Unova Pokémon,
holds Audinite to become Mega Audino,
taking its total from 445 to 545. The biggest single gain is 40 Defense, followed by 40 Sp. Def. Nothing goes down — HP, Attack and Speed stay exactly where they were.
The typing changes: it gains Fairy, which rewrites every matchup below. The ability stays Healer.
What gets through
As Normal and Fairy, 2 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 2 and is outright immune to 2. 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 Audino is played on 0.09% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 197th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Trick Room at 74.5%.
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 Audino takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 63% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Make It Rain (Steel, ×2), on 99.5% of its sets
- Venusaur — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 97.2% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 66.6% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Audino is 87th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Defense at 126, which is 15th
among Megas; its worst is Speed at 50, 80th.
No other Mega Evolution has the Normal and Fairy typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
The unevolved Audino is itself on 0.18% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Audino 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
80 points of
Special Attack actually change a
knockout.
