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ludicolo
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Ludicolo

Carefree Pokémon

WaterGrass

If it hears festive music, all its muscles fill with energy. It can’t help breaking out into a dance.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 70
Defense 70
Sp. Atk 90
Sp. Def 100
Speed 70
Total 480

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Carefree Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 55.0 kg
Base Exp 216
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups Water1 ,Plant

Sprites

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

Competitive

Special Attacker
Item
Assault Vest
Nature
Modest
EVs
HP 104
SpA 252
Spe 152
Life Orb Attacker
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Modest
EVs
Def 4
SpA 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

While the loss of permanent rain was a negative, Ludicolo is still a potent rain attacker; its immunity to powder moves allows it to switch into Spore and ignore Rage Powder, meaning it can get around Amoonguss, a common check to rain teams. Fake Out is an excellent move that lets Ludicolo disrupt opposing strategies, and when rain is up, Ludicolo becomes the fastest Fake Out user in the metagame. However, it does have some problems of its own. For example, while its Water / Grass typing allows it to handle Pokemon such as Rotom-W that normally check rain sweepers, this typing also causes Ludicolo to miss out on some resistances that would've been useful, such as ones to Fire-, Ice-, and Electric-type attacks. In addition, although Ludicolo isn't frail, it's not especially bulky either, so more powerful attacks from Pokemon such as Mega Kangaskhan can deal heavy damage to it.

Most Used Moves

Fake Out
79.8%
Ice Beam
71.8%
Scald
38.5%
Surf
17.7%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
26.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc