What Mega Evolution changes
Crabominable, number 740 in the National Dex and a Alola Pokémon,
holds Crabominite to become Mega Crabominable,
taking its total from 478 to 578. The biggest single gain is 45 Defense, followed by 40 Sp. Def. It also loses 10 Speed.
The typing does not change — it is Fighting and Ice before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. The ability stays Iron Fist.
What gets through
As Fighting and Ice, 6 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 3. 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 Crabominable is played on 0.22% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 143th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Ice Hammer at 85.7%.
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 Crabominable takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Crabominable is 77th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 157, which is 14th
among Megas; its worst is Speed at 33, 86th.
No other Mega Evolution has the Fighting and Ice typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
The unevolved Crabominable is itself on 0.01% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Crabominable 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
157 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
