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kingdra
#230

Kingdra

Dragon Pokémon

WaterDragon

It lives in caves on the seafloor and creates giant whirlpools every time it moves.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 95
Defense 95
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 95
Speed 85
Total 540

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Dragon Pokémon
Height 1.8 m
Weight 152.0 kg
Base Exp 243
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Sea
Egg Groups Water1 ,Dragon

Sprites

kingdra Front Front
kingdra Back Back
kingdra Front Shiny Front Shiny
kingdra Back Shiny Back Shiny
kingdra Official Art Official Art
kingdra Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Rain Dance
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

While Kingdra has a theoretical niche as a decent revenge killer against rain teams, it's ultimately far too inconsistent in the current metagame. Kingdra's reliance on manual rain makes it very gimmicky against non-rain teams, and it can even struggle against rain teams because it can't reliably break through Ferrothorn and hates status from other rain staples like Politoed and Tentacruel. Keldeo and Starmie are better choices, since the former has Secret Sword to break past special walls like Chansey and Ferrothorn, while Starmie has better natural Speed and Electric-type coverage for Politoed and Tentacruel, as well as Analytic to punish switch-ins. They also don't require rain to be a threat, and they are much less one-dimensional than Kingdra thanks to their better overall movepools and matchups against non-rain teams.

Most Used Moves

Surf
71.0%
Outrage
54.7%
Waterfall
54.7%
Ice Beam
24.3%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
58.3%
Leftovers
10.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc