Gastrodon
No. 0423
Type: Water / Ground
Eats beach sand for nourishment. Should one Gastrodon encounter another of a different color, a fierce battle will inevitably ensue.
Base stats
| HP | 111 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 83 |
| Defense | 68 |
| Sp. Attack | 92 |
| Sp. Defense | 82 |
| Speed | 39 |
Total 475
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Bug — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Skitter Smack
- Ice — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Ice Beam
- Poison — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Sludge Wave
- Fire — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — It learns nothing of that type
- Flying — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — It learns nothing of that type
Abilities
- Sticky Hold
- Storm Drain
- Sand Force (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Amnesia
- Ancient Power
- Blizzard
- Body Slam
- Bulldoze
- Chilling Water
- Curse
- Dig
- Earth Power
- Earthquake
- Endure
- Facade
- Giga Impact
- Harden
- Helping Hand
- Hydro Pump
- Hyper Beam
- Ice Beam
- Icy Wind
- Liquidation
- Memento
- Muddy Water
- Mud Shot
- Mud-Slap
- Pain Split
- Protect
- Rain Dance
- Recover
- Rest
- Rock Blast
- Rock Slide
- Rock Tomb
- Sandstorm
- Sand Tomb
- Skitter Smack
- Sleep Talk
- Sludge Bomb
- Sludge Wave
- Snowscape
- Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Stomping Tantrum
- Stone Edge
- Substitute
- Surf
- Take Down
- Tera Blast
- Waterfall
- Water Gun
- Water Pulse
- Weather Ball
- Whirlpool
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Hazard setter
- Ability
- Storm Drain
- Item
- Earth Plate
- Nature
- Bold
- EVs
- 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
- Moves
- Earth Power, Spikes, Icy Wind, Surf