What Mega Evolution changes
Scizor, number 212 in the National Dex and a Johto Pokémon,
holds Scizorite to become Mega Scizor,
taking its total from 500 to 600. The biggest single gain is 40 Defense, followed by 20 Attack. Nothing goes down — HP stays exactly where it was.
The typing does not change — it is Bug and Steel before and after — so the Mega is the same defensive problem as the base form, only bigger. The ability stays Technician.
What gets through
As Bug and Steel, 1 of the eighteen attacking types get through for extra damage, and Fire lands for quadruple. It resists 8 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 Scizor is played on 0.74% of teams in the Regulation M-B VGC
ladder, which puts it 83th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to
measure. The move almost every one of them carries is Bullet Punch at 100%.
The Champions module tiers it (OU).
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 Scizor takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×4), on 91.2% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×4), on 99.2% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×4), on 99.5% of its sets
- Torkoal — Eruption (Fire, ×4), on 89.7% of its sets
- Ceruledge — Bitter Blade (Fire, ×4), on 100% of its sets
- Talonflame — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×4), on 49.2% of its sets
Where it sits among the Megas
Of the 91 Mega forms in the dex, Mega Scizor is 50th by base
stat total. Its best stat is Attack at 150, which is 20th
among Megas; its worst is Sp. Atk at 65, 76th.
One other Mega shares the Bug and Steel typing and therefore this exact matchup board: Mega Golisopod.
The unevolved Scizor is itself on 0.45% of teams.
Putting it on a team
A Mega slot is a commitment: the stone occupies the held item, so whatever Mega Scizor 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
150 points of
Attack actually change a
knockout.
