Pokédex · III (Hoenn)

Mega Rayquaza#10079

Strong point: Attack — among the highest in the entire Pokédex. Overall it is one of the stronger species — above 100% of the Pokédex. On defense it has 4 weaknesses, 5 resistances and 1 full immunity. Watch out for the Ice type — damage from it is quadrupled. This is a Legendary Pokémon: one per game, no offspring.

Mega Rayquaza
Shiny version
Dragon Flying
Height: 10.8 m (35′05″) Weight: 392.0 kg (864.2 lbs)

Base stats

HP
105
91%
Atk
180
100%
Def
100
82%
SpA
180
100%
SpD
100
86%
Spe
115
94%
TOTAL
780
100%

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

Attack and Sp. Atk share first place here, so any nature that raises one of them will do. The list of natures shows what each one does.

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

Which nature to choose

Attack (180) and Sp. Atk (180) are nearly equal, so neither of these two stats can be lowered for free. The price has to be paid in defense — in the weaker one, because Defense does not stop anything here anyway.

  • Hasty +Spe · −Def A mixed set that does not intend to take any hits: all that matters is striking first.
  • Lonely +Atk · −Def The same price, but the boost goes into the stronger of the two offensive stats.

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

Legendary

Abilities

  • Delta Stream Creates a mysterious air current, which cannot be replaced and causes moves to never be super effective against Flying Pokémon.

Pokédex entry

RAYQUAZA lived for hundreds of millions of years in the earth’s ozone layer, never descending to the ground. This POKéMON appears to feed on water and particles in the atmosphere.

Habitat: Rare Egg Group: Undiscovered Gender: Genderless Catch difficulty: hard (45/255) Base friendship: 0/255 Base EXP: 351
Evolution line

Resistances and weaknesses

Type chart →

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

Weak to Ice ×4 Rock ×2 Dragon ×2 Fairy ×2
Resistant to Grass ×¼ Fire ×½ Water ×½ Fighting ×½ Bug ×½
Immune to Ground ×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 Rayquaza — large render in its regular coloring
Pokémon HOME
Mega Rayquaza — large render in its shiny coloring
Pokémon HOME shiny
Mega Rayquaza — small pixel sprite in its regular coloring
Pixel sprite
Mega Rayquaza — small pixel sprite in its shiny coloring
Shiny pixel sprite

Mega Rayquaza does not breed. You cannot get an Egg from it — this is how the games treat almost all Legendary and Mythical species.

Below are the moves learned by leveling up. The rest (57 via TM/TR, 17 via tutor) are on the full list.

Lv. Move Type Cat. Power Acc. PP
1 Twister Dragon Special 40 100% 20
5 Scary Face Normal Status — 100% 10
15 Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100% 5
20 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100% 15
30 Air Slash Flying Special 75 95% 15
35 Rest Psychic Status — — 5
45 Extreme Speed Normal Physical 80 100% 5
50 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100% 10
60 Dragon Dance Dragon Status — — 20
65 Fly Flying Physical 90 95% 15
75 Hyper Voice Normal Special 90 100% 10
80 Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100% 10
90 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90% 5