Miraidon

Using Miraidon in a Playthrough

Miraidon is a standalone Electric/Dragon Legendary Pokémon and Pokémon Violet's mascot, but the player's ride Miraidon does not become usable in ordinary battles until the climax of The Way Home, after which it can switch between ride and battle roles. A second, aggressive Miraidon remains in Area Zero after the story and can be captured, so like Koraidon its meaningful battle availability is essentially endgame and postgame rather than part of most of the badge journey. Its base 135 Special Attack and 135 Speed combine with 100/100/115 bulk, while Hadron Engine automatically creates Electric Terrain and multiplies Miraidon's Special Attack by roughly four-thirds while the terrain is active. Electro Drift is a 100-base-power, perfectly accurate signature Electric attack whose damage receives an additional roughly 33% increase when the move is super effective, and Electric Terrain further boosts grounded Electric attacks, making it devastating against vulnerable targets. Dragon Pulse provides reliable Dragon STAB, while Draco Meteor reaches far greater power at 90% accuracy and lowers Special Attack by two stages; Volt Switch and U-turn can preserve momentum, and Calm Mind or Charge can support setup. Electric/Dragon strongly resists Electric and resists Fire, Flying, Grass, Steel, and Water, but Ground, Ice, Dragon, and Fairy all threaten super-effective damage. Its five named modes—Ultimate, Low-Power, Drive, Aquatic, and Glide—describe full battle power, weakened/resting condition, and different traversal configurations; only Ultimate Mode is normally usable in battle. Timid is generally the safest Nature because its base-135 Speed tier is highly contested, while Modest makes Hadron Engine-boosted attacks even more destructive.

Miraidon in Competitive Pokémon

Miraidon is currently classified as Anything Goes in Smogon's Scarlet/Violet structure because it was ultimately banned even from Ubers, a rare distinction that separates its singles history from Koraidon's. Hadron Engine is the core of the problem: on entry it creates Electric Terrain and, while that terrain remains active, multiplies Miraidon's already base-135 Special Attack by roughly 1.333×, creating enormous immediate power without requiring a setup turn. Electro Drift is a 100-base-power perfectly accurate Electric STAB that receives another roughly 1.333× modifier when super effective, while Draco Meteor pressures Ground-types that block Electric moves and U-turn lets Miraidon escape those checks without surrendering all momentum. Choice Specs, Heavy-Duty Boots pivoting, Calm Mind, and Agility sets have all exploited different aspects of its toolkit, and Terastallization can bypass traditional Dragon or Ground counterplay or raise its STAB damage even further. Miraidon narrowly survived an Ubers suspect in March 2024, when the pro-ban vote fell short of the required threshold, but a second major suspect concluded on October 20, 2024 with 92 of 111 votes—82.9%—supporting a ban, sending Miraidon to Anything Goes. Official VGC remained a separate legal environment: Miraidon became a metagame-defining restricted Pokémon through Hadron Engine, Electro Drift, Volt Switch, Draco Meteor, Protect, and terrain support for partners such as Iron Hands. That success persisted through the 2025 World Championships, where Miraidon appeared on a Masters semifinal team and several strong Senior and Junior teams, showing that its oppressive singles power translated into elite but legally manageable doubles play.

Miraidon in Nuzlockes

Miraidon is one of Violet's strongest possible Nuzlocke Pokémon if box Legendaries are allowed, but its battle use begins only at the end of the main story, greatly limiting how much of the run it can actually influence. Base 135 Speed is an outstanding survival tool and Electro Drift is nearly ideal for permadeath play because it is perfectly accurate, extremely strong, and becomes even stronger against super-effective targets without imposing recoil or defensive drops. Hadron Engine automatically strengthens Miraidon's special offense while creating Electric Terrain, so many encounters can be ended without spending a separate turn on setup. Dragon Pulse is a safer routine Dragon move than Draco Meteor when its lower power still secures the knockout, since Draco Meteor is only 90% accurate and leaves Miraidon's Special Attack two stages lower afterward. Volt Switch and U-turn provide valuable controlled repositioning, especially against Ground-types that are immune to Electro Drift, but Ground, Ice, Dragon, and Fairy coverage must still be identified before assuming Miraidon's strong overall bulk makes a matchup safe. Calm Mind can improve both damage and special durability, yet using it is often unnecessary when Miraidon's unboosted offense already overwhelms ordinary opponents. When played around its four weaknesses rather than used as a universal switch-in, Miraidon combines speed, reliable offense, useful resistances, and momentum control at an exceptional level.

Miraidon is a sleek mechanical reptilian Pokémon resembling Cyclizar, with glowing digital eyes, antenna-like structures, jet-equipped hindquarters, and luminous throat and tail structures that can change shape with its operating mode. Ultimate Mode is its fully powered battle state, Low-Power Mode is used while weakened or resting, Drive Mode turns the throat and tail structures into wheel-like rings for land travel, Aquatic Mode supports movement across water, and Glide Mode transforms the antennae and body posture for aerial travel. In its travel modes the rear legs fold away while built-in propulsion systems take over, making its locomotion much more machine-like than Koraidon's muscular running. The two known modern specimens also displayed contrasting temperaments, with the player's Miraidon capable of curiosity, fear, attachment, and trust while the second specimen was aggressively territorial. Its origin is deliberately unresolved: AI Turo identifies it as a future relative or descendant of Cyclizar, while the Professor encountered at the Crystal Pool describes it as a Cyclizar counterpart from another timeline, and the Violet Book's much older record again complicates a straightforward future-import explanation.