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tangrowth
#465

Tangrowth

Vine Pokémon

Grass

Tangrowth has two arms that it can extend as it pleases. Recent research has shown that these arms are, in fact, bundles of vines.

Base Stats

HP 100
Attack 100
Defense 125
Sp. Atk 110
Sp. Def 50
Speed 50
Total 535

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

tangrowth Tangrowth Ancient Power

Moves

Details

Category Vine Pokémon
Height 2.0 m
Weight 128.6 kg
Base Exp 187
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 30
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Plant

Sprites

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

Competitive

Sleeper
Item
Rocky Helmet / Leftovers
Ability
Regenerator
Nature
Relaxed
EVs
HP 248
Def 252
SpA 8

Strategy Overview

Tangrowth is one of the few viable sleep inducers in Ubers. The combination of Regenerator, great physical bulk, and a decent defensive typing lets Tangrowth check many physical threats such as Zygarde, Groudon, and Necrozma-DM. As a trade-off, Tangrowth is extremely fragile specially. Its typing leaves it vulnerable to extremely common Ice-, Fire-, and Poison-type attacks, but even neutral special hits can bring it down, such as Eternatus's Dynamax Cannon and Calyrex-S's Astral Barrage. Also, after putting a foe to sleep, Tangrowth somewhat struggles to be useful, as it's very weak unless it hits super effectively.

Most Used Moves

Knock Off
88.4%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
23.3%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc