#0566

Archen

First Bird Pokémon

Rock Flying

Archen is said to be the ancestor of bird Pokémon. It lived in treetops, eating berries and bug Pokémon.

In Pokémon GO · 1842 max CP 1 TCG Pocket card

Details

Height0.5 m

Weight9.5 kg

Gender87.5% ♂ · 12.5% ♀

Catch rate45(11.9%)Tricky

Base friendship70Standard

Hatch time30 cycles · ~7,905 steps

Growth ratemedium

Base EXP71

Abilities

Defeatist

Halves Attack and Special Attack at 50% max HP or less.

Egg groups: Flying, Water 3

Contents

Stats
Movesets
Locations
Evolution
Best moves
Moves
Breeding
Sprites

Base stats

Attack

112

Defense

Sp. Atk

Sp. Def

Speed

Total

401

Base Stat Total

Type defenses

Damage taken from each attacking type.

Weak to

Rock2×

Steel2×

Water2×

Electric2×

Ice2×

Resistant to

Normal½×

Flying½×

Poison½×

Bug½×

Fire½×

Immune to

Ground0×

Competitive movesets

Smogon University

Battle-ready sets by tier, straight from Smogon. Pick a generation and format — a “/” means either option works in that slot.

Generation

Choice Scarf

Moves

Item

Choice Scarf

Nature{"Jolly","Naive"}

EV spread

HP76

Atk180

Spe196

Berry Juice

Moves

Item

Berry Juice

Nature{"Jolly","Naive"}

EV spread

Atk180

SpA4

SpD76

Spe196

Source: Smogon (via pkmn) · Data snapshot: Jul 31, 2026 · 18,880 rows

Where to find Archen

Wild encounter locations across the games. Availability may also include trades, evolution, gifts, and events not listed here.

Black

White

Black 2

White 2

Sun

Moon

Ultra Sun

Ultra Moon

Evolution

#0566Archen

Lv. 37

#0567Archeops

All Pokémon evolution families

Notable moves

The strongest damaging moves Archen can learn — same-type (STAB) moves get a 1.5× power bonus in battle.

Moves

Lv.	Move & effect	Type	Class	Power	Acc.	PP
1	Leer Lowers the target’s Defense by one stage.	Normal	Status	—	100	30
1	Quick Attack Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Normal	Physical	40	100	30
3	Rock Throw Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Rock	Physical	50	90	15
6	Wing Attack Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Flying	Physical	60	100	35
8	Double Team Raises the user’s evasion by one stage.	Normal	Status	—	—	15
9	Dragon Breath Has a chance to paralyze the target.	Dragon	Special	60	100	20
12	Ancient Power Has a chance to raise all of the user’s stats by one stage.	Rock	Special	60	100	5
15	Pluck If target has a berry, inflicts double damage and uses the berry.	Flying	Physical	60	100	20
18	Quick Guard Prevents any priority moves from hitting friendly Pokémon this turn.	Fighting	Status	—	—	15
21	U-turn User must switch out after attacking.	Bug	Physical	70	100	20
24	Rock Slide Has a chance to make the target flinch.	Rock	Physical	75	90	10
27	Scary Face Lowers the target’s Speed by two stages.	Normal	Status	—	100	10
28	Acrobatics Has double power if the user has no held item.	Flying	Physical	55	100	15
30	Crunch Has a chance to lower the target’s Defense by one stage.	Dark	Physical	80	100	15
33	Agility Raises the user’s Speed by two stages.	Psychic	Status	—	—	30
36	Tailwind For three turns, friendly Pokémon have doubled Speed.	Flying	Status	—	—	15
39	Dragon Claw Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Dragon	Physical	80	100	15
42	Thrash Hits every turn for 2-3 turns, then confuses the user.	Normal	Physical	120	100	10
45	Endeavor Lowers the target’s HP to equal the user’s.	Normal	Physical	—	100	5