What Mega Evolution changes
Falinks, number 870 in the National Dex and a Galar Pokémon,
holds Falinksite to become Mega Falinks,
taking its total from 470 to 570. The biggest single gain is 35 Attack, followed by 35 Defense. Nothing goes down — HP and Sp. Atk stay exactly where they were.
The typing does not change — it is Fighting before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. The ability stays Defiant.
What gets through
As Fighting, 3 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 Falinks is played on 0.12% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 181th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Close Combat at 84.7%.
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 Falinks takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 59.3% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Falinks is 79th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 135, which is 42nd
among Megas; its worst is Sp. Def at 65, 88th.
No other Mega Evolution has the Fighting typing, so this matchup board is unique to it.
The unevolved Falinks 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 Falinks 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
135 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
