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Rank #48 · 9 votes · median S
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Game data
Abilities
- Psychic Surge
Turns the ground into Psychic Terrain for 5 turns when the Pokémon enters a battle. Pokémon on the ground have their Psychic-type moves boosted by 30% and cannot use or be targeted by moves with increased priority.
- TelepathyHidden
The Pokémon anticipates and dodges the attacks of its allies.
Boosts the Pokémon’s Sp. Atk stat when an attack causes its HP to drop to ½ or less of its max.
Egg moves
- MoonlightFairyStatus— · —
The user bathes in the soothing light of the moon, restoring ½ of its max HP. In harsh sunlight, ⅔ of its max HP will be restored instead. In all other weather conditions, ¼ of its max HP will be restored instead.
- Nasty PlotDarkStatus— · —
The user stimulates its brain by thinking bad thoughts. This sharply boosts the user’s Sp. Atk stat.
- Heat WaveFireSpecial95 pow · 90%
The user attacks by blasting opposing Pokémon with searingly hot wind. This move has a 10% chance of burning targets.
- Expanding ForcePsychicSpecial80 pow · 100%Rare egg move
The user attacks the target with its psychic power. If the user is on Psychic Terrain, this move’s power is boosted by 50% and its range extends to all opponents.
Base stats
Tapu Lele · BST 570
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-7 starter:
- Passive ability
- 15 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 8 / 20 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 12 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Tapu Lele eggs: 10 🍬 after 10 hatches, 9 🍬 after 20 hatches, 6 🍬 after 40 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 300
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Tapu Lele needs 300 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.