What Mega Evolution changes
Chandelure, number 609 in the National Dex and a Unova Pokémon,
holds Chandelurite to become Mega Chandelure,
taking its total from 520 to 620. The biggest single gain is 30 Sp. Atk, followed by 20 Attack. Nothing goes down — HP stays exactly where it was.
The typing does not change — it is Ghost and Fire before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. The ability stays Infiltrator.
What gets through
As Ghost and Fire, 5 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 7 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 Chandelure is played on 0.41% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 112th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Shadow Ball at 97.6%.
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 Chandelure takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 44.4% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 99.1% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Chandelure is 40th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 175, which is 4th
among Megas; its worst is HP at 60, 85th.
No other Mega Evolution has the Ghost and Fire typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
The unevolved Chandelure is itself on 1.2% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Chandelure 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
175 points of
Special Attack actually change a
knockout.
