Shadow Porygon-Z
Attack
Defense
Stamina
Best Movesets
Analysis
Porygon2 got a malware-laden update to its stats and appearance, thus becoming Porygon-Z, but it didn’t receive any upgrades to its normally wide movepool. With Lock-On's high energy gains, it can slot in against basically anything weak to one of its powerful charge moves and can offer a fair bit of generalist utility, though it's basically never going to be a top pick in any of these roles.
In partly cloudy weather, Shadow Porygon-Z can fire an incredibly strong Tri-Attack that can actually make it a top attacker given Partly Cloudy weather if a Normal Type Mega Evolution is on the field.
Offense
- Lock On has high energy gains, allowing Porygon-Z to pump out charge moves faster, but its damage output is among the worst in the game, making it less than ideal.
- Charge Beam fairly reliably synergizes with Porygon-Z's charged moves.
- Hidden Power has diverse typings that can pair well with any of Porygon-Z's non-Normal charged moves to make it an okay specialist in Grass, Ice, or Eectric due to its high attack.
- Hidden Power Ice and Blizzard make Porygon a decent Ice attacker.
- Solar Beam is superior to Zap Cannon when facing Water-types.
- Zap Cannon + Charge Beam is potent against Flying-types.
- Tri-Attack offers maximum neutral DPS
- Hyper Beam is inferior.
Defense
- Hidden Power is superior to Charge Beam due to higher base power, and it makes Porygon-Z something of a wild-card on defense, as it could be nearly any type.
- Lock On is one of the worst moves on defense.
- Tri-Attack has STAB and lower energy cost, making it the best choice on defense.
- Hyper Beam has the highest power and widest neutral coverage, though it is easy to dodge.
- Zap Cannon has good power, but is almost as easy as Hyper Beam to dodge.
- Blizzard has wide offensive coverage and a fairly early damage window, though it has the lowest base power of Porygon-Z's charged moves.
- Solar Beam hits very hard and is harder to dodge than Hyper Beam or Zap Cannon, though several common gym-cleaners such as Dragonite, Metagross, and Rayquaza resist it.
Lock-On features the best energy generation in the game, and is recommended to fuel Porygon-Z's very expensive Charge Moves.
Tri-Attack is mandatory due to its lesser energy cost, though it is limited to Elite TMs and Community Day events. Porygon-Z suffers from the lack of a cheap Charge Move option; with the exception of its Communtiy Day move, all of its Charge Moves cost at least 75 energy, which is absurdly slow. Any combination of its Charge Moves alongside Tri-Attack can be chosen depending on desired coverage.
Porygon-Z doesn't have any real use in PvP. High offensive stats result in poor bulk in Great League. while a highly inefficient moveset can result in excessive overkill damage, or fainting before being able to land a charge move.
