#0616 · Snail Pokémon
Shelmet
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Classic
Rank #458 · 6 votes · median C
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Rank #335 · 9 votes · median B
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Tier history
8 recorded changes · 6 votes
Moved B → A 3 hours ago
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Game data
Abilities
- Hydration
Cures the Pokémon’s status conditions at the end of every turn in rain.
- Shell Armor
A hard shell protects the Pokémon from critical hits.
- OvercoatHidden
The Pokémon takes no damage from sandstorms or hail, and is immune to moves and Abilities involving powder or spores.
When the Pokémon takes damage from a move, its Defense stat is boosted.
Different passives in this line: Accelgor: Tinted Lens
Egg moves
- Power GemRockSpecial80 pow · 100%
The user attacks with a ray of light that sparkles as if it were made of gemstones.
- Mat BlockFightingStatus— · —
Using a pulled-up mat as a shield, the user protects itself and its allies from damaging moves. This move does not stop status moves and will fail unless it is the first move used by the user after it enters a battle.
- Night DazeDarkSpecial90 pow · 95%
The user looses a pitch-black shock wave at the target to inflict damage. This move has a 40% chance of lowering the target’s accuracy.
- Nasty PlotDarkStatus— · —Rare egg move
The user stimulates its brain by thinking bad thoughts. This sharply boosts the user’s Sp. Atk stat.
Base stats
Shelmet · BST 305
Accelgor · BST 495
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 Shelmet 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: Shelmet needs 50 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.