Cacnea
No. 0331
Type: Grass
The more arid and harsh the environment, the more pretty and fragrant a flower Cacnea grows. This Pokémon battles by wildly swinging its thorny arms.
Base stats
| HP | 50 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 85 |
| Defense | 40 |
| Sp. Attack | 85 |
| Sp. Defense | 40 |
| Speed | 35 |
Total 335
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Rock — Cover 4 weaknesses (Fire, Ice, Flying, Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
- Ground — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fire, Poison) — Bulldoze
- Fire — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
- Electric — Covers 1 weakness (Flying) — Thunder Punch
- Fighting — Covers 1 weakness (Ice) — Focus Punch
- Flying — Covers 1 weakness (Bug) — It learns nothing of that type
Abilities
- Sand Veil
- Water Absorb (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Absorb
- Acid
- Belch
- Block
- Body Slam
- Brick Break
- Bulldoze
- Bullet Seed
- Cotton Spore
- Counter
- Curse
- Dark Pulse
- Destiny Bond
- Dig
- Disable
- Drain Punch
- Encore
- Endeavor
- Endure
- Energy Ball
- Facade
- Fell Stinger
- Fling
- Focus Punch
- Foul Play
- Giga Drain
- Grass Knot
- Grassy Glide
- Grassy Terrain
- Growth
- Helping Hand
- Ingrain
- Leaf Storm
- Leech Seed
- Leer
- Low Kick
- Magical Leaf
- Nasty Plot
- Payback
- Pin Missile
- Poison Jab
- Poison Sting
- Power Trip
- Protect
- Rain Dance
- Rest
- Sand Attack
- Sandstorm
- Scary Face
- Seed Bomb
- Skitter Smack
- Sleep Talk
- Solar Beam
- Spikes
- Spite
- Substitute
- Sucker Punch
- Sunny Day
- Swift
- Switcheroo
- Swords Dance
- Take Down
- Teeter Dance
- Tera Blast
- Thief
- Throat Chop
- Thunder Punch
- Toxic Spikes
- Trailblaze
- Venoshock
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Hazard setter
- Ability
- Water Absorb
- Item
- Leftovers
- Nature
- Lax
- EVs
- 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
- Moves
- Leaf Storm, Spikes, Bulldoze, Focus Punch