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slaking
#289

Slaking

Lazy Pokémon

Normal

SLAKING spends all day lying down and lolling about. It eats grass growing within its reach. If it eats all the grass it can reach, this POKéMON reluctantly moves to another spot.

Base Stats

HP 150
Attack 160
Defense 100
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 65
Speed 100
Total 670

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Evolution Chain

vigoroth Vigoroth Lv. 18
slaking Slaking Lv. 36

Moves

Details

Category Lazy Pokémon
Height 2.0 m
Weight 130.5 kg
Base Exp 252
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

slaking Front Front
slaking Back Back
slaking Front Shiny Front Shiny
slaking Back Shiny Back Shiny
slaking Official Art Official Art
slaking Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ubers Usage: 1.7%
Choice Band
Moves
Focus Punch / Earthquake
Hyper Beam / Earthquake
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Slaking boasts a fantastic Attack stat that puts even the Ubers metagame to shame. It has a good base 100 Speed stat too, allowing it to outspeed some key threats and force them out with its strong attacks. Unfortunately, Slaking's amazing power can only be tapped into every other turn due to its ability, Truant. Thus, Slaking has to rely heavily on proper predictions to punch through teams most effectively and is forced to use a Choice Band set, seeing how it's almost always forced to switch out after firing off just a single devastating attack regardless of its effectiveness. The opportunity cost of adding Slaking to a team is also extremely large, as it allows dangerous sweepers to come in for free every other turn. Moreover, due to how important role compression and momentum is in Ubers, you're often hard pressed to fit Slaking outside of extremely specific builds, and even then it's hard to justify the team slot it occupies.

Most Used Moves

Facade
4.3%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc