Deserves better, exeggutor

The defenders I'll start upon today aren't nearly as usual as they deserve to be. All of them are better than dragonite, tyranitar, rhydon and gyarados.

Let's start with exeggutor.

Exeggutor comes with a fairly high max CP, capping out at some 2900. It's a grass / psychic pokemon, meaning that you can't brainlessly use a vaporeon and attack into it. Dragonite is a neutral choise, but you'll have to be careful when attacking with the new tyranitar.

The normal pick will be something with fire type attacks, despite exeggutor suffering from double weakness against bug type attacks.

Not so strange, maybe, since there are only two pokemon in the game that could abuse it. Heracross, which is region bound to south and middle America and Ariados, which caps out at 1600 CP.


Exeggutor comes with two legacy primary attacks, Zen Headbutt and Confusion. Of those Confusion is the best for defence, but both a perfectly servicable for defence.

Since the release of gen 2 exeggutor can have Extra Sensory or Bullet Seed for primary attacks. The best defensive move is Extra Sensory, which basically is a marginally boosted Zen Headbutt.

The pick of charge attacks are the same as before, Psychic, Seed Bomb and Solar Beam. Psychic has become a relatively fast one bar attack doing poor dmage, and Solar Beam is a super slow attack doing absurd damage. None are suitable for defence.

Seed Bomb might not look much, but it's a very fast, three bar, attack that will hit over and over and over again. Add the benefit of having two attack-types in a defending position.

Every attack availabe for exeggutor comes with STAB bonus.

The best exeggutor defender out there comes with a legacy Confusion as primary and Seed Bomb as charge attack. If you want to create one today you're stuck with Extra Sensory and Seed Bomb.


Exeggutor shares the weakness of a relatively low HP bulk with several of the most common, ultra high CP, defenders, but in difference from them there isn't a readily available lineup of 2500 CP or higher pokemon attacking for double damage bonus.

Unless you're living surrounded by heracross, in which case exeggutor is dead as a defender.


Exeggutor is best used for mixing into a level 30 style snorlax gym, or a non-maxed exeggutor can take that role in a similar blissey gym. So we're talking 2800 CP exeggutors in the first place and 2600 CP ones in the second.

While exeggutor doesn't make the top five it's still a good defender. Maybe not because of superb stats, but rather because there aren't any really good pokemon out there to abuse its weakness, OK heracross aside.