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gabite
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Gabite

Cave Pokémon

DragonGround

It loves sparkly things. It seeks treasures in caves and hoards the loot in its nest.

Base Stats

HP 68
Attack 90
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 50
Sp. Def 55
Speed 82
Total 410

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

gabite Gabite Lv. 24
garchomp Garchomp Lv. 48

Moves

Details

Category Cave Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 56.0 kg
Base Exp 144
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Monster ,Dragon

Sprites

gabite Front Front
gabite Back Back
gabite Front Shiny Front Shiny
gabite Back Shiny Back Shiny
gabite Front ♀ Front ♀
gabite Back ♀ Back ♀
gabite Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
gabite Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
gabite Official Art Official Art
gabite Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

pu Usage: 7.3%
Offensive
Item
Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability
Rough Skin
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252
Defensive
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Rough Skin
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 176
Spe 80

Strategy Overview

Gabite is blessed with just enough good merits in all the right places to carve a niche for itself in PU. 82 Speed is perfect for outspeeding common wallbreakers like Stoutland, Shiftry, and Monferno. Ground typing is also highly sought after for the Electric immunity and resistance to Rock, and the combination of Ground and the rare Dragon typing means that Gabite isn't weak to the common Grass- and Water-type attacks in PU. STAB Earthquake with a secondary STAB option in Outrage makes for excellent coverage as well. However, Gabite finds itself commonly walled by tanks such as Bronzor and Torterra, and the lack of recovery mixed with only above-average bulk mean that Gabite can struggle to achieve its full potential in either an offensive or defensive capacity.

Most Used Moves

Outrage
91.4%
Toxic
5.8%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc