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Archeops

First Bird Pokémon

Game version

AppearanceStandard

Archeops

Archeops (shiny)

Height: 1.4 m
Weight: 32.0 kg

Training & breeding details

Gender87.5% ♂ · 12.5% ♀

Catch rate45(11.9%)Tricky

Base friendship70Standard

Hatch time30 cycles · ~7,905 steps

Growth ratemedium

Base EXP177

Though capable of flight, Archeops was apparently better at hunting on the ground.

In Pokémon GO · 3331 max CP 2 TCG Pocket cards

Base stats

HP

75

Attack

140

Defense

65

Sp. Atk

112

Sp. Def

65

Speed

110

Total

567

Base Stat Total

Abilities

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

Egg groups: Flying, Water 3

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Type defenses

Damage taken from each attacking type.

Weak to

Ice2×

Resistant to

Bug½×

Fire½×

Immune to

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

Lead

RU

Moves

Item

Focus Sash

NatureHasty+Spe/−Def

EV spread

Atk252

Spe▲252

Pivot

RU

Moves

Item

Heavy-Duty Boots

NatureJolly+Spe/−SpA

EV spread

Atk252

SpD4

Spe▲252

Source: Smogon (via pkmn) · Updated: Oct 6, 2026

Evolution

Archen

Lv. 37

Archeops

All Pokémon evolution families

Notable moves

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

Meteor BeamSTAB

Moves

Find a move19 of 19

Scroll across the table for type, power, accuracy and PP →

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
1	Rock Throw Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Rock	Physical	50	90	15
1	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
41	Dragon Claw Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Dragon	Physical	80	100	15
46	Thrash Hits every turn for 2-3 turns, then confuses the user.	Normal	Physical	120	100	10
51	Endeavor Lowers the target’s HP to equal the user’s.	Normal	Physical	—	100	5

Sprites & renders

14 sprites & renders for Archeops.

Official artwork

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Animated

Animated (back)

Front

Back

Across the games

Menu Icons

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X · Y

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Ultra Sun · Moon

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Cite this page

“Archeops”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/pokedex/archeops.

Species data from PokéAPI.