Natu
XatuCommunity tiers (you can vote in all four)
Classic
Rank #438 · 7 votes · median C
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Rank #375 · 10 votes · median B
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Endless
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5 recorded changes · 7 votes
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Game data
Abilities
- 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.
- Early Bird
The Pokémon awakens from sleep twice as fast as other Pokémon.
- Magic BounceHidden
Instead of being affected by other Pokémon’s status moves, the Pokémon bounces them back at the user.
The Pokémon’s “not very effective” attacks deal double damage.
Different passives in this line: Xatu: Sheer Force
Egg moves
- Revival BlessingNormalStatus— · —
The user bestows a loving blessing, reviving a party Pokémon that has fainted and restoring half that Pokémon’s max HP.
- Nasty PlotDarkStatus— · —
The user stimulates its brain by thinking bad thoughts. This sharply boosts the user’s Sp. Atk stat.
- MoonblastFairySpecial95 pow · 100%
Borrowing the power of the moon, the user attacks the target. This move has 10% chance of lowering the target’s Sp. Atk stat.
- Oblivion WingSpecial80 pow · 100%Rare egg move
The user unleashes a wave of destruction to absorb HP from target. The user’s HP is restored by ¾ of the damage dealt by this move.
Base stats
Natu · BST 320
Xatu · BST 470
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 Natu 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: Natu needs 50 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.