Parasect

No. 0047

Type: Bug / Grass

Mushroom-lacking specimens of this Pokémon lie unmoving in the forest, lending credence to the hypothesis that the large mushroom is in control of Parasect's actions.

Base stats

Total 405

What to answer with

Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.

• Rock — Cover 4 weaknesses (Fire, Ice, Flying, Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
• Ground — Cover 3 weaknesses (Fire, Poison, Rock) — Dig
• Water — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fire, Rock) — It learns nothing of that type
• Fighting — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Rock) — Brick Break
• Fire — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
• Steel — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Rock) — It learns nothing of that type

Abilities

• Effect Spore
• Dry Skin
• Damp (Hidden)

Evolution line

• Paras
• Parasect

Moves

• Absorb
• Brick Break
• Dig
• Facade
• Fury Swipes
• Growth
• Headbutt
• Hyper Beam
• Leech Life
• Leech Seed
• Light Screen
• Mega Drain
• Poison Powder
• Protect
• Reflect
• Rest
• Scratch
• Screech
• Slash
• Sleep Powder
• Sludge Bomb
• Solar Beam
• Spore
• Stun Spore
• Substitute
• Toxic
• X-Scissor

What the optimizer would run

Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)

Role

Setup sweeper

Ability

Dry Skin

Item

Life Orb

Nature

Adamant

EVs

252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD

Moves

Growth, Leech Life, Brick Break, Stun Spore