Nidoking
Drill Pokémon
NIDOKING’s thick tail packs enormously destructive power. With one swing, it can topple a metal transmission tower. Once this POKéMON goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it.
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Official Art (Shiny)Competitive
Strategy Overview
This analysis was written well over a decade ago. The following content is no longer accurate about this Pokemon's place in the metagame and the ADV OU metagame in general.
Nidoking's great movepool makes it usable in standard. There are very few surefire counters to Nidoking, as it can always surprise you and KO one of the key elements of your team. However, it can be rather hard to bring in due to its common weaknesses to Surf and Earthquake, and it will always have problems taking down sturdy Water-types.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc