Pokédex · II (Johto)

Mega Scizor#10046

Strong point: Attack — among the highest in the entire Pokédex. Overall it is one of the stronger species — above 94% of the Pokédex. On defense it has 1 weakness, 8 resistances and 1 full immunity. Watch out for the Fire type — damage from it is quadrupled.

Shiny Mega Scizor
Regular version
Bug Steel
Height: 2.0 m (6′07″) Weight: 125.0 kg (275.6 lbs)

Base stats

HP
70
51%
Atk
150
99%
Def
140
97%
SpA
65
49%
SpD
100
86%
Spe
75
61%
TOTAL
600
94%

Last column: what percentage of 1084 species and regional forms have a lower value. Strong point: Attack.

A nature can improve this entry further: its boost hits hardest on Attack, the stat in which this species already leads. Which nature does that — see the list of natures.

Mega Evolution adds a fixed pool of one hundred points and replaces the ability with a single one.

Which nature to choose

It hits physically: its Attack (150) is 85 points higher than its Sp. Atk. So the drop hits a stat the set usually does not use at all.

  • Jolly +Spe · −SpA Its Speed is higher than 61% of species — ten percent more lifts it past some of the benchmarks that decide who moves first.
  • Adamant +Atk · −SpA If you already outspeed what you want to outspeed, those ten percent are better spent on hitting power.
  • Hidden Power and Weather Ball still deal damage based on Sp. Atk. If either of them is going into the set, lowering Sp. Atk is no longer free.

A conclusion drawn from base stats alone — a specific moveset can reverse it. All 25 natures.

Abilities

  • Technician Strengthens moves of 60 base power or less to 1.5× their power.

Pokédex entry

It has a steel-hard body. It intimidates foes by upraising its eye-patterned pincers.

Habitat: Grassland Egg Group: Bug Gender: 50% ♂ / 50% ♀ Catch difficulty: hard (25/255) Base friendship: 70/255 Base EXP: 210

Resistances and weaknesses

Type chart →

How much damage Mega Scizor takes when it is hit by a move of each type. The multipliers of both its types are already combined here.

Weak to Fire ×4
Resistant to Grass ×¼ Normal ×½ Ice ×½ Psychic ×½ Bug ×½ Dragon ×½ Steel ×½ Fairy ×½
Immune to Poison ×0

Variant gallery

The gallery shows only the appearance variants that exist for this Pokémon. Every image shows the same character and differs in source — a Pokémon HOME render or a pixel sprite — and in coloring, regular or shiny.

Mega Scizor — large render in its regular coloring
Pokémon HOME
Mega Scizor — large render in its shiny coloring
Pokémon HOME shiny
Mega Scizor — small pixel sprite in its regular coloring
Pixel sprite
Mega Scizor — small pixel sprite in its shiny coloring
Shiny pixel sprite

Offspring can come from 91 species from the same Egg Groups (with opposite genders) or from Ditto. Below are the first 12 by Pokédex number.

Below are the moves learned by leveling up. The rest (40 via TM/TR, 9 via tutor) are on the full list.

Lv. Move Type Cat. Power Acc. PP
1 Bullet Punch Steel Physical 40 100% 30
1 Feint Normal Physical 30 100% 10
1 Leer Normal Status — 100% 30
1 Quick Attack Normal Physical 40 100% 30
5 Focus Energy Normal Status — — 30
9 Pursuit Dark Physical 40 100% 20
13 False Swipe Normal Physical 40 100% 40
17 Agility Psychic Status — — 30
21 Metal Claw Steel Physical 50 95% 35
25 Fury Cutter Bug Physical 40 95% 20
29 Slash Normal Physical 70 100% 20
33 Razor Wind Normal Special 80 100% 10
37 Iron Defense Steel Status — — 15
41 X Scissor Bug Physical 80 100% 15
45 Night Slash Dark Physical 70 100% 15
49 Double Hit Normal Physical 35 90% 10
50 Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100% 15
57 Swords Dance Normal Status — — 20