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seaking
#119

Seaking

Goldfish Pokémon

Water

In autumn, its body becomes more fatty in preparing to propose to a mate. It takes on beautiful colors.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 92
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 80
Speed 68
Total 450

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

seaking Seaking Lv. 33

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Goldfish Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 39.0 kg
Base Exp 158
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups Water2

Sprites

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

Competitive

Life Orb
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Lightning Rod
Nature
Lonely
EVs
Atk 252
SpA 92
Spe 164

Strategy Overview

Seaking is one of the several Pokemon introduced in RBY that never saw the light of the upper tiers, always finding its home in NU. The goldfish with a horn was deemed as one without competitive value. Even the Magikarp that you catch with Old Rod evolves into the great and mighty Gyarados. It seems like this poor old fish will never make a name for itself; and that's probably true. There's nothing much to say about its horrible stats. 'Horrible' might not even be enough to describe Seaking's stats. It has only one stat that breaks past the base 90 bench mark, and that is its base 92 Attack, which is rather average. To add insult to the injuries, it has an incredibly shallow movepool, probably because it stayed in its tiny little fish pond for too long. Seaking isn't a very apt name; it isn't even close to the true King of the Seas known as Kyogre. In fact, it's the opposite; it is the Slave of the Seas, outclassed by almost all of the Water-types that have appeared throughout the generations. Fortunately, the change of move mechanics in DPP gave Seaking some use. Its main STAB attack, Waterfall, became a physical attack, giving Seaking some utility in DPP UU. BW gave another gift to the lonely goldfish in Lightning Rod through Dream World. With that, Seaking gained an immunity to Electric-type moves, meaning that it has only one weakness left. That said, there isn't much of a reason to use Seaking, even in NU. But if you need an Electric immune Pokemon that can use Water-type attacks, Seaking is probably what you're looking for. That's a really small niche, probably smaller than Seaking's supposed memory space.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc