What Mega Evolution changes
Feraligatr, number 160 in the National Dex and a Johto Pokémon,
holds Feraligite to become Mega Feraligatr,
taking its total from 530 to 630. The biggest single gain is 55 Attack, followed by 25 Defense. Nothing goes down — HP and Speed stay exactly where they were.
The typing changes: it gains Dragon, which rewrites every matchup below. Mega Evolving replaces Torrent and Sheer Force with Dragonize.
What gets through
As Water and Dragon, 2 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 Feraligatr is played on 0.23% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 134th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Protect at 95.2%.
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 Feraligatr takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 66.7% of its sets
- Dragonite-Mega — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 90.3% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 93 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Feraligatr is 31st by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 160, which is 11th
among Megas; its worst is Speed at 78, 65th.
One other Mega shares the Water and Dragon typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Tatsugiri Curly.
The unevolved Feraligatr is itself on 0.02% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Feraligatr 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
160 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
