What Mega Evolution changes
Hawlucha, number 701 in the National Dex and a Kalos Pokémon,
holds Hawluchanite to become Mega Hawlucha,
taking its total from 500 to 600. The biggest single gain is 45 Attack, followed by 30 Sp. Def. Nothing goes down — HP, Sp. Atk and Speed stay exactly where they were.
The typing does not change — it is Fighting and Flying before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. Mega Evolving replaces Limber, Unburden and Mold Breaker with No Guard.
What gets through
As Fighting and Flying, 5 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage. It resists 4 and is outright immune to 1. 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 Hawlucha is played on 0.17% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 158th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Entrainment at 86%.
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 Hawlucha takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% 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
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Hawlucha is 53rd by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 137, which is 38th
among Megas; its worst is Sp. Atk at 74, 70th.
One other Mega shares the Fighting and Flying typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Staraptor.
The unevolved Hawlucha 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 Hawlucha 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
137 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
