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golbat
#042

Golbat

Bat Pokémon

PoisonFlying

Its sharp fangs puncture the toughest of hides and have small holes for greedily sucking blood.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 80
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 75
Speed 90
Total 455

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

golbat Golbat Lv. 22
crobat Crobat Happiness 160

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Bat Pokémon
Height 1.6 m
Weight 55.0 kg
Base Exp 159
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Flying

Sprites

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

Competitive

ru
Defensive
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 172
SpD 84

Strategy Overview

Everything about Golbat just screams defensive Pokemon. It has a great defensive typing, being 4x resistant to the common Grass-, Fighting-, and Bug-type moves in the RU tier, as well as having immunities to both Ground-type moves and Toxic. Eviolite boosts Golbat's already decent defenses to great levels, and when in conjunction with Roost, Golbat becomes nigh impossible to kill. A good Speed stat allows Golbat to outspeed most of the common walls in the tier, Taunting them before they can retaliate. However, Golbat suffers from a crippling weakness to the common Psychic-, Electric-, Ice-, and Rock-type moves, as well as Stealth Rock. However, this won't stop Golbat, as it's still one of the best checks to Fighting-, Grass-, and Bug-types in the tier, and makes for a solid defensive threat.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc