What Mega Evolution changes
Delphox, number 655 in the National Dex and a Kalos Pokémon,
holds Delphoxite to become Mega Delphox,
taking its total from 534 to 634. The biggest single gain is 45 Sp. Atk, followed by 30 Speed. Nothing goes down — HP, Attack and Defense stay exactly where they were.
The typing does not change — it is Fire and Psychic before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. Mega Evolving replaces Blaze and Magician with Levitate.
What gets through
As Fire and Psychic, 5 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 7. 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 Delphox is played on 12.8% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 13th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Heat Wave at 99.6%.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
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 Delphox takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 51.4% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 91.8% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 93 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Delphox is 23rd by base
stat total. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 159, which is 18th
among Megas; its worst is Attack at 69, 87th.
No other Mega Evolution has the Fire and Psychic typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Delphox 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
159 points of
Special Attack actually change a
knockout.
