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venipede
#543

Venipede

Centipede Pokémon

BugPoison

Its bite injects a potent poison, enough to paralyze large bird Pokémon that try to prey on it.

Base Stats

HP 30
Attack 45
Defense 59
Sp. Atk 30
Sp. Def 39
Speed 57
Total 260

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

scolipede Scolipede Lv. 30

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Centipede Pokémon
Height 0.4 m
Weight 5.3 kg
Base Exp 52
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

venipede Front Front
venipede Back Back
venipede Front Shiny Front Shiny
venipede Back Shiny Back Shiny
venipede Official Art Official Art
venipede Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc Usage: 0.1%
Entry Hazard Stacker
Moves
Solar Beam / Toxic Spikes
Item
Grassium Z / Eviolite
Ability
Speed Boost
Nature
Serious / Impish
EVs
Atk 76
Def 204
SpA 36
SpD 44
Spe 148

Strategy Overview

Venipede's access to Speed Boost and Spikes gives it a niche as a reliable entry hazard setter that can deal with common spinners and hazard setters such as Staryu, Drilbur, and Onix using Bloom Doom. Additionally, its multi-hit STAB move Pin Missile can OHKO Focus Sash users like Abra and is generally powerful. Unlike other Spikes setters, Venipede can effectively set up Spikes at nearly any point in the game. Its defensive typing is also pretty good, granting it a 4x resistance to the incredibly common Fighting- and Grass-type moves. Sadly, Venipede's overall poor offensive presence and relatively poor defensive presence make it outclassed by other hazard setters if reliability isn't needed, mainly Ferroseed and Dwebble, which have much better defensive and offensive presence, respectively.

Most Used Moves

Protect
100.0%
Spikes
59.0%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
17.3%
Leftovers
10.9%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc