Krookodile
No. 0553
Type: Ground / Dark
While terribly aggressive, Krookodile also has the patience to stay hidden under sand for days, lying in wait for prey.
Base stats
| HP | 95 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 117 |
| Defense | 80 |
| Sp. Attack | 65 |
| Sp. Defense | 70 |
| Speed | 92 |
Total 519
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Fire — Cover 3 weaknesses (Grass, Ice, Bug) — Fire Fang
- Flying — Cover 3 weaknesses (Grass, Fighting, Bug) — Aerial Ace
- Poison — Cover 2 weaknesses (Grass, Fairy) — Gunk Shot
- Rock — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Bug) — Stone Edge
- Steel — Cover 2 weaknesses (Ice, Fairy) — It learns nothing of that type
- Bug — Covers 1 weakness (Grass) — Skitter Smack
Abilities
- Intimidate
- Moxie
- Anger Point (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Aerial Ace
- Bite
- Body Slam
- Breaking Swipe
- Brick Break
- Bulk Up
- Bulldoze
- Close Combat
- Crunch
- Curse
- Dark Pulse
- Dig
- Double-Edge
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Pulse
- Dragon Tail
- Earth Power
- Earthquake
- Endeavor
- Endure
- Facade
- Fire Fang
- Fling
- Focus Blast
- Focus Punch
- Foul Play
- Giga Impact
- Grass Knot
- Gunk Shot
- Helping Hand
- High Horsepower
- Hone Claws
- Hyper Beam
- Knock Off
- Lash Out
- Leer
- Low Kick
- Low Sweep
- Mud Shot
- Mud-Slap
- Outrage
- Power Trip
- Protect
- Rest
- Roar
- Rock Slide
- Rock Tomb
- Sand Attack
- Sandstorm
- Sand Tomb
- Scale Shot
- Scary Face
- Scorching Sands
- Shadow Claw
- Skitter Smack
- Sleep Talk
- Sludge Bomb
- Smack Down
- Snarl
- Spite
- Stealth Rock
- Stomping Tantrum
- Stone Edge
- Substitute
- Swagger
- Take Down
- Taunt
- Tera Blast
- Thief
- Thrash
- Throat Chop
- Thunder Fang
- Torment
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Setup sweeper
- Ability
- Intimidate
- Item
- Heavy-Duty Boots
- Nature
- Adamant
- EVs
- 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
- Moves
- Focus Punch, Bulk Up, Earthquake, Foul Play