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golbat
#042

Golbat

Bat Pokémon

PoisonFlying

Once it bites, it will not stop draining energy from the victim even if it gets too heavy to fly.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 80
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 75
Speed 90
Total 455

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

golbat Golbat Lv. 22
crobat Crobat Happiness 160

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Bat Pokémon
Height 1.6 m
Weight 55.0 kg
Base Exp 159
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 90
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Cave
Egg Groups Flying

Sprites

golbat Front Front
golbat Back Back
golbat Front Shiny Front Shiny
golbat Back Shiny Back Shiny
golbat Front ♀ Front ♀
golbat Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
golbat Official Art Official Art
golbat Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 6.7%
Physically Defensive
Moves
Toxic / Super Fang / Taunt
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Infiltrator
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4
Specially Defensive
Moves
Toxic / Super Fang / Taunt
Item
Eviolite
Ability
Infiltrator
Nature
Careful
EVs
HP 252
SpD 176
Spe 80

Strategy Overview

As a guaranteed means of removing entry hazards, Defog is one of the most important moves in the RU metagame—and as a fairly bulky Pokemon with a good defensive typing and a reliable recovery move, Golbat is one of its best users. It also has serious utility with Infiltrator Toxic, which allows it to cripple threatening boosters such as SubCM Meloetta right through their Substitutes, as well as Super Fang and Taunt, which let it wear down Steel-types like few others and take on defensive Pokemon and hazards users, respectively. Although Golbat walls Grass-types quite well and takes on Fighting-types pretty well with a STAB Brave Bird, its typing unfortunately leaves it open to being hit super effectively by a whole heap of strong offensive types, specifically Electric, Ice, Rock, and Psychic. While Golbat is capable of tanking hits and Defogging away hazards, it often lets entry hazard users, especially the prominent Mega Steelix and Rhyperior, switch back in and reset their hazards, and it certainly can't come in on them to Defog; it also lets most Steel-types do whatever they want, though Taunt and Super Fang generally help in these regards. Because Golbat is weak to the Stealth Rock it is tasked with removing, and because the Fighting-types it walls often carry Knock Off to remove its Eviolite and thus slash its defenses, Golbat can be hard-pressed to stay alive and keep doing its job, but it can definitely fill the needs of your team if used correctly.

Most Used Moves

Roost
95.9%
Defog
84.3%
Toxic
54.7%
U-turn
19.2%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
98.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc