Mega Salamence
Dragon · Flying · 700 BST · Salamencite
| Stat | Base | Mega | Relative size | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 95 | 95 | — | |
| Attack | 135 | 145 | +10 | |
| Defense | 80 | 130 | +50 | |
| Sp. Atk | 110 | 120 | +10 | |
| Sp. Def | 80 | 90 | +10 | |
| Speed | 100 | 120 | +20 | |
| Total | 600 | 700 | +100 |
| Stat | Base | Mega | Relative size | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 95 | 95 | — | |
| Attack | 135 | 145 | +10 | |
| Defense | 80 | 130 | +50 | |
| Sp. Atk | 110 | 120 | +10 | |
| Sp. Def | 80 | 90 | +10 | |
| Speed | 100 | 120 | +20 | |
| Total | 600 | 700 | +100 |
Salamence, number 373 in the National Dex and a Hoenn Pokémon, holds Salamencite to become Mega Salamence, taking its total from 600 to 700. The biggest single gain is 50 Defense, followed by 20 Speed. Nothing goes down — HP stays exactly where it was.
The typing does not change — it is Dragon and Flying before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. Mega Evolving replaces Intimidate and Moxie with Aerilate.
As Dragon and Flying, 4 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage, and Ice lands for quadruple. It resists 5 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.
Mega Salamence cannot be used in the current Pokémon Champions regulation, so there is no ladder data for it and no legal set to report. Salamence is not legal either, so the whole line sits outside the format rather than just the Mega.
Regulation M-B closes on 9 September 2026, and legality is regenerated from the format data on every build rather than written by hand, so this page will change on its own if that changes.
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 Salamence takes extra damage from.
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Salamence is 17th by base stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 145, which is 29th among Megas; its worst is Sp. Def at 90, 66th. 2 other Megas share the Dragon and Flying typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Dragonite, Mega Rayquaza.
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Salamence 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.