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gastrodon
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Gastrodon

Sea Slug Pokémon

WaterGround

It has strong regenerative capabilities. Even if parts of it are bitten off by fish Pokémon, it will return to normal within a few hours.

Base Stats

HP 111
Attack 83
Defense 68
Sp. Atk 92
Sp. Def 82
Speed 39
Total 475

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Sea Slug Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 29.9 kg
Base Exp 166
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Water1 ,Indeterminate

Sprites

gastrodon Front Front
gastrodon Back Back
gastrodon Front Shiny Front Shiny
gastrodon Back Shiny Back Shiny
gastrodon Official Art Official Art
gastrodon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Storm Drain
Nature
Sassy
EVs
HP 252
Def 108
SpD 148

Strategy Overview

Gastrodon is a very reliable defensive Pokemon thanks to its amazing typing, ability, and access to reliable recovery. This allows it to check common threats such as Lycanroc, Aggron, and Choice Specs Jellicent and block Volt Switch from the likes of Lanturn. However, its typing also leaves it weak to rather common Grass-types such as Roselia and Victreebel and Grass-type coverage moves from the likes of Eelektross. It also suffers from being passive and lets threats such as Drampa and Lurantis in almost for free, as they only fear a potential Toxic. Furthermore, Gastrodon is extremely prone to getting worn down via Toxic, forcing it to use Recover more often. Finally, Gastrodon suffers from competition from other Ground-types such as Mudsdale and Torterra, which are bulkier and have access to Stealth Rock, and Jellicent, which has much more stallbreaking utility.

Most Used Moves

Recover
92.7%
Scald
90.3%
Toxic
74.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
85.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc