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nidoqueen
#031

Nidoqueen

Drill Pokémon

PoisonGround

Its body is cover­ ed with needle- like scales. It never shows signs of shrinking from any attack.

Base Stats

HP 90
Attack 92
Defense 87
Sp. Atk 75
Sp. Def 85
Speed 76
Total 505

Type Effectiveness

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Drill Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 60.0 kg
Base Exp 227
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 0% ♂ / 100% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups No Eggs

Sprites

nidoqueen Front Front
nidoqueen Back Back
nidoqueen Front Shiny Front Shiny
nidoqueen Back Shiny Back Shiny
nidoqueen Official Art Official Art
nidoqueen Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 0.7%
Standard
Moves
Thunder / Thunderbolt
Ice Beam / Fire Blast
Item
Leftovers

Strategy Overview

Nidoqueen is whatever you want it to be. Really, Nidoqueen is used to fill in gaps in a team, and to be played defensively. Nidoqueen is a great Pokemon with a nice typing, which makes it immune to Electric, 4x resistant to Poison, and 2x resistant to Fighting, Bug, and Rock. Sure, a few of its weaknesses are pretty common, but every Pokemon has weaknesses. Nidoqueen could work in OU, given its immunity to Thunder Wave and Toxic, and its all-around usefulness. You could mix and match the moves above to make it a useful Curse counter. Really, Nidoqueen can fill in almost any role you may need on a team. Nidoqueen's versatility is what makes it so useful and fun to use. Facing one can be annoying though, since it has a large movepool at its disposal and its standard set has excellent type coverage, and several other movesets are possible.

Most Used Moves

Earthquake
100.0%
Moonlight
89.3%
Toxic
76.6%
Ice Beam
27.4%
Thunder
10.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
95.9%
Nothing
3.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc