What Mega Evolution changes
Eelektross, number 604 in the National Dex and a Unova Pokémon,
holds Eelektrossite to become Mega Eelektross,
taking its total from 515 to 615. The biggest single gain is 30 Attack, followed by 30 Sp. Atk. Nothing goes down — HP and Defense stay exactly where they were.
The typing does not change — it is Electric before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. Mega Evolving replaces Levitate with Eelevate.
What gets through
As Electric, 1 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 Eelektross is played on 0.77% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 82th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Protect at 91.2%.
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 Eelektross takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 95.6% of its sets
- Hydreigon — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 58.8% of its sets
- Excadrill — High Horsepower (Ground, ×2), on 56.9% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Eelektross is 44th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 145, which is 27th
among Megas; its worst is Speed at 80, 60th.
4 other Megas share the Electric typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Raichu Y, Mega Raichu X, Mega Manectric, Mega Zeraora.
The unevolved Eelektross 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 Eelektross 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
145 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
