#0605 · Cerebral Pokémon
Elgyem
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Rank #385 · 6 votes · median C
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Game data
Abilities
- Telepathy
The Pokémon anticipates and dodges the attacks of its allies.
- Synchronize
If the Pokémon is burned, paralyzed, poisoned, or badly poisoned by another Pokémon’s move or Ability, that Pokémon will also be inflicted with the same status condition. If this Pokémon is your lead into battle, opposing wild Pokémon will share its nature.
- AnalyticHidden
Boosts the power of the Pokémon’s move by 30% when the Pokémon is the last to move that turn.
The power of the Pokémon’s ruinous beads lowers the Sp. Def stats of all Pokémon except itself by 25% while on the field.
Egg moves
- ThunderclapElectricSpecial70 pow · 100%
This move enables the user to attack first with a jolt of electricity. This move fails if the target is not readying an attack.
- Baddy BadDarkSpecial80 pow · 95%
The user acts bad and attacks the target. A wondrous wall of light is put up to halve the damage taken from physical moves. In Double Battles, this damage is reduced by ⅓ instead.
- Aura SphereFightingSpecial80 pow · —
The user lets loose a pulse of aura power from deep within its body at the target. This attack never misses.
- Photon GeyserPsychicSpecial100 pow · 100%Rare egg move
The user attacks the target with a pillar of light. This move inflicts damage using the Attack or Sp. Atk stat—whichever is higher for the user. This move can ignore the effect of the target’s Ability (with certain exceptions).
Base stats
Elgyem · BST 335
Beheeyem · BST 485
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-2 starter:
- Passive ability
- 40 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 25 / 60 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 30 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Elgyem eggs: 27 🍬 after 20 hatches, 22 🍬 after 40 hatches, 15 🍬 after 80 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 50
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Elgyem needs 50 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.