Venipede
No. 0543
Type: Bug / Poison
Its fangs are highly venomous. If this Pokémon finds prey it thinks it can eat, it leaps for them without any thought of how things might turn out.
Base stats
| HP | 30 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 45 |
| Defense | 59 |
| Sp. Attack | 30 |
| Sp. Defense | 39 |
| Speed | 57 |
Total 260
What to answer with
Attacking types that hit what hits it hard, and the best move of each one it learns.
- Rock — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fire, Flying) — Rollout
- Ground — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fire, Rock) — It learns nothing of that type
- Water — Cover 2 weaknesses (Fire, Rock) — It learns nothing of that type
- Dark — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Bite
- Ghost — Covers 1 weakness (Psychic) — Hex
- Grass — Covers 1 weakness (Rock) — Solar Beam
Abilities
- Poison Point
- Swarm
- Speed Boost (Hidden)
Evolution line
Moves
- Agility
- Attract
- Bite
- Bug Bite
- Defense Curl
- Double-Edge
- Endure
- Facade
- Fury Cutter
- Gyro Ball
- Hex
- Iron Defense
- Payback
- Pin Missile
- Poison Jab
- Poison Sting
- Poison Tail
- Protect
- Rest
- Rollout
- Round
- Screech
- Skitter Smack
- Sleep Talk
- Sludge Bomb
- Snore
- Solar Beam
- Spikes
- Steel Roller
- Substitute
- Sunny Day
- Take Down
- Toxic
- Toxic Spikes
- Venom Drench
- Venoshock
What the optimizer would run
Rules: Gen 9 OU (singles)
- Role
- Hazard setter
- Ability
- Speed Boost
- Item
- Black Sludge
- Nature
- Careful
- EVs
- 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
- Moves
- Spikes, Steel Roller, Poison Jab, Pin Missile