Pokémon Team Roles: Wall

The Wall

A Wall is supposed to soak up damage. A good wall should have:

• High HP and Defense or Special Defense
• Reliable recovery by moves and items
• Resistance, especially to Dragon, Fighting, Rock and Ground
• Perhaps the ability to lay entry hazards, haze or phaze

Walls trade swiftness and offense for pure defense. Walls can PP-stall an opponent, survive hits until the foe runs out of PP, until his or her Pokémon are useless.

Good Physical Walls

Weezing

Forretress

Golem

Skarmory

Shuckle

Good Special Walls

Blissey

Gastrodon

Jellicent

Suicune

Tentacruel

Good Mixed Walls

Ferrothorn

Cresselia

Cofagrigus