Tentacruel
No. 0073
Type: Water / Poison
It has 80 tentacles, each with a venomous tip. These tentacles are also extendible, lengthening when Tentacruel attempts to catch prey. Use caution.
Base stats
| HP | 80 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 70 |
| Defense | 65 |
| Sp. Attack | 80 |
| Sp. Defense | 120 |
| Speed | 100 |
Total 515
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 (Psychic) — Skitter Smack
- Dark — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Throat Chop
- Ghost — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Hex
- Grass — Covers 1 weakness (Ground) — Giga Drain
- Ground — Covers 1 weakness (Electric) — Mud Shot
- Ice — Covers 1 weakness (Ground) — Ice Beam
Abilities
- Clear Body
- Liquid Ooze
- Rain Dish (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Acid
- Acid Armor
- Acid Spray
- Blizzard
- Bubble Beam
- Chilling Water
- Confuse Ray
- Dazzling Gleam
- Endure
- Facade
- Flip Turn
- Giga Drain
- Giga Impact
- Gunk Shot
- Haze
- Hex
- Hydro Pump
- Hyper Beam
- Ice Beam
- Icy Wind
- Knock Off
- Liquidation
- Muddy Water
- Mud Shot
- Poison Jab
- Poison Sting
- Pounce
- Protect
- Rain Dance
- Reflect Type
- Rest
- Scary Face
- Screech
- Skitter Smack
- Sleep Talk
- Sludge Bomb
- Sludge Wave
- Substitute
- Supersonic
- Surf
- Swift
- Swords Dance
- Tera Blast
- Thief
- Throat Chop
- Toxic
- Toxic Spikes
- Venoshock
- Water Gun
- Water Pulse
- Weather Ball
- Whirlpool
- Wrap
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Hazard setter
- Ability
- Liquid Ooze
- Item
- Black Sludge
- Nature
- Bold
- EVs
- 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
- Moves
- Ice Beam, Toxic Spikes, Sludge Bomb, Surf