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#0491 · Generation IV · form of Darkrai

Mega Darkrai

Dark · Pitch-Black Pokémon — first seen in Generation IV.

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Base stats

HP70
Attack120
Defense130
Sp. Attack165
Sp. Defense130
Speed85
Total700
StatBaseMinMax
HP70250344
Attack120220372
Defense130238394
Sp. Attack165301471
Sp. Defense130238394
Speed85157295

Min and max are at level 100: the minimum is 0 IVs, 0 EVs and a hindering nature, the maximum 31 IVs, 252 EVs and a beneficial nature. Shedinja's HP is always 1 whatever the formula says.

Type defences

Damage Mega Darkrai takes from each attacking type.

×2
FightingBugFairy
×½
GhostDark
×0
Psychic
×1
NormalFlyingPoisonGroundRockSteelFireWaterGrassElectricIceDragon

Evolution

Mega Darkrai does not evolve, and nothing evolves into it.

Other forms

Moves

Mega Darkrai is not in any of the 16 official games this site covers (Red & Blue through Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon), so there is no learnset here yet.

Where to find it in the official games

Not obtainable in the wild in any of the 16 official games this site covers. In those games it has to be evolved, traded or bred — or it belongs to a game whose data is not here yet.

Compare official Mega Darkrai with the ROM hacks →

In the 1 guide that include it

Changed in 1 of 1 guide: retyped in 1, stats in 1.

Every ROM hack on this site that has Mega Darkrai, and what it did to it. Guides that changed something are first. Click one for that version's full page — locations, moveset and TMs.

GuideTypeTotalAbilities
Elite ReduxChangedDarkFire635 -65
+9 HP, -26 Attack, -17 Defense, -21 Sp. Atk, -10 Sp. Def
Wildfire, Wildfire, Wildfire

Pokédex entries

What each game says about it, in the games' own words.

Diamond / Y / Alpha SapphireIt can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon.
PearlFolklore has it that on moonless nights, this Pokémon will make people see horrific nightmares.
Platinum / Black / White / Black 2 / White 2To protect itself, it afflicts those around it with nightmares. However, it means no harm.
HeartGold / SoulSilver / X / Omega RubyIt chases people and Pokémon from its territory by causing them to experience deep, nightmarish slumbers.

Names in other languages

Japaneseダークライ
Japanese (Rōmaji)Darkrai
GermanDarkrai
FrenchDarkrai
SpanishDarkrai
ItalianDarkrai
Korean다크라이
Chinese (Simplified)达克莱伊
Chinese (Traditional)達克萊伊

Official data here is present-day reference data from PokéAPI, not a snapshot of any one game's era — the Fairy type and hidden abilities arrived partway through the series, so a difference against an older game can belong to the series rather than to that ROM hack.