Whirlipede
No. 0544
Type: Bug / Poison
Whirlipede protects itself with a sturdy shell and poisonous spikes while it stores up the energy it’ll need for evolution.
Base stats
| HP | 40 |
|---|---|
| Attack | 55 |
| Defense | 99 |
| Sp. Attack | 40 |
| Sp. Defense | 79 |
| Speed | 47 |
Total 360
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) — Payback
- 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
- Bug Bite
- Defense Curl
- Double-Edge
- Endure
- Facade
- 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