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golurk
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Golurk

Automaton Pokémon

GroundGhost

Artillery platforms built into the walls of ancient castles served as perches from which Golurk could fire energy beams.

Base Stats

HP 89
Attack 124
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 80
Speed 55
Total 483

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

golurk Golurk Lv. 43

Moves

Details

Category Automaton Pokémon
Height 2.8 m
Weight 330.0 kg
Base Exp 169
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender Genderless
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

golurk Front Front
golurk Back Back
golurk Front Shiny Front Shiny
golurk Back Shiny Back Shiny
golurk Official Art Official Art
golurk Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

nu Usage: 7.6%
Choice Band
Item
Choice Band
Ability
No Guard
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
TrickyBarb
Item
Sticky Barb
Ability
Klutz
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Golurk boasts a top-tier offensive STAB combination along with a useful pool of utility moves, making it very difficult to identify the set and safely play around. Additionally, it's one of the few viable Ground-types in the tier, letting it check Aerodactyl and Tyrantrum in a pinch as well as block Rotom-C's Volt Switch. Despite Golurk's colorful movepool and great Attack stat, its poor Speed and middling bulk make it quite easy to find midgrounds for once its set is successfully identified. Golurk also faces competition from the much superior Silvally-Ground and Mudsdale for a teamslot because they have significantly fewer flaws and are easier to build around; with Golurk, you lose a ton of defensive utility and cannot easily run item displacement such as Knock Off. As a wallbreaker, Golurk is slower than the likes of Exploud and Sylveon while only matching their damage output. Golurk's reliance on Poltergeist and Earthquake, two moves with common immunities in the tier, can make it quite prediction reliant to accomplish the same damage that the aforementioned wallbreakers and others accomplish simply by using their STAB moves.

Most Used Moves

Trick
11.6%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc