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gigalith
#526

Gigalith

Compressed Pokémon

Rock

The blasts of energy it makes from sunbeams have terrifying power. However, it’s not able to fire its blasts at night or on rainy days.

Base Stats

HP 85
Attack 135
Defense 130
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 80
Speed 25
Total 515

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

boldore Boldore Lv. 25
gigalith Gigalith Trade

Moves

Details

Category Compressed Pokémon
Height 1.7 m
Weight 260.0 kg
Base Exp 232
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

gigalith Front Front
gigalith Back Back
gigalith Front Shiny Front Shiny
gigalith Back Shiny Back Shiny
gigalith Official Art Official Art
gigalith Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Specially Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Sand Stream
Nature
Careful
EVs
HP 252
Def 4
SpD 252

Strategy Overview

Gigalith's access to Sand Stream, which boosts its Special Defense by 50%, makes it an extremely durable Pokemon with its base 85 / 130 / 80 bulk. Sand Stream is the biggest factor in making Gigalith a good Pokemon, as it makes Stoutland an incredible threat, removes sun, hinders moves such as Synthesis and Moonlight, and provides chip damage that can be an annoyance to the opponent (but to the user as well). Gigalith's movepool is also diverse enough with access to moves such as Stealth Rock, making it one of the most effective users of it, along with Stone Edge, Rock Blast, and Earthquake. In addition, with its Rock typing and incredible defenses, Gigalith makes for a good check against a number of threats such as Swellow, Salazzle, Dragalge, Goodra, and Ninetales. All that said, its typing also gives it a weakness to the common Water- and Ground-types in the tier such as Slowbro, Milotic, Rhyperior, and Flygon. Additionally, Gigalith is pitifully slow, has no recovery outside of Leftovers, and has to compete with other Rock-types in the tier, including Rhyperior, which can be more hard hitting, and Diancie, which has more utility with its Fairy typing and access to Heal Bell.

Most Used Moves

Explosion
49.1%
Toxic
31.4%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
21.5%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc