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Access strategic insights and in-depth analysis for Swampert in the Smogon Strategy Pokedex.
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An uninvested Swampert can be quite passive, especially with the removal of scald and toxic. It has a bit of a 4 Moveslot Syndrome, both on offense and defense. Tera implications. Defensive pokémon normally shouldn't be your choice of terastalization unless you really need to stop a sweeper.
Well Swampert should be run as PhysDef, because if you want a pivot with rocks that also acts as a special wall, just use Blissey. SpDef Pert isn't inherently bad, just outclassed. Edit: And also, most if not all teams in the meta rn have an electric immunity. Swampert is useful for role compression: Rocks, pivot, typing.
hammer798. [OVERVIEW] Swampert is an excellent wall. Its great defensive typing gives it resistances and immunities to Fire-, Poison-, and Electric-type attacks from the likes of Infernape, Alolan Muk, and Iron Thorns, and it threatens them with Earthquake. While there is some competition for the Water-type slot on teams, Swampert is unique in ...
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Explore strategies for using Swampert in the Ruby and Sapphire generation of Pokemon games with Smogon's Pokedex guide.
Mega Swampert is a mainstay on rain-based Water teams due to its ability Swift Swim, part-Ground typing, great role compression, and fearsome wallbreaking ability, heavily improving the Electric, Poison, and Dragon matchups. Earthquake nails Water-resistant foes like Toxapex, Hisuian Goodra, and Water Absorb Clodsire as well as Electric-types ...
Handling Mega Swampert defensively is a nightmare, with many believing the most brutal part of Mega Swampert are the secondary effects; Waterfall's flinch chance, coupling with critical hits and Ice Punch's freeze chance mean that answers like Skarmory and Mega Latias can regularly be overcome given how many attempts Mega Swampert has during a ...
Swampert needs to be more wary of surprise Hidden Power Grass on stuff like Magnezone, Heatran and Zapdos, all of which often run HP Grass purely for Swampert. - Great defences. 100/90/90 defences might look underwhelming, but Swampert has key resistances to the main STABs of a lot of threatening Pokemon, most notably Rock, Fire and Electric.