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rapidash
#078

Rapidash

Fire Horse Pokémon

Fire

Just loves to run. If it sees something faster than itself, it will give chase at top speed.

Base Stats

HP 65
Attack 100
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 80
Sp. Def 80
Speed 105
Total 500

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

rapidash Rapidash Lv. 40

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Fire Horse Pokémon
Height 1.7 m
Weight 95.0 kg
Base Exp 175
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

rapidash Front Front
rapidash Back Back
rapidash Front Shiny Front Shiny
rapidash Back Shiny Back Shiny
rapidash Official Art Official Art
rapidash Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

pu Usage: 1.1%
Offensive Utility
Item
Firium Z
Ability
Flash Fire
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Rapidash is a poor Fire-type for a team. It is a utility attacker with decent coverage and Will-O-Wisp. Sadly, Rapidash is outclassed by other Fire-types like Simisear and Combusken, which have access to setup moves, and Combusken has a secondary STAB and Speed Boost. It also has a weakness to entry hazards such as Stealth Rock and Spikes and suffers recoil from its moves. While it has a great Speed tier, it has a subpar Attack and a movepool that hurts more than it helps.

Most Used Moves

Drill Run
35.7%
Megahorn
27.1%

Most Used Items

Firium Z
18.8%
Life Orb
11.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc