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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

Rain Dance Sweeper
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Modest / Timid
EVs
HP 4
SpA 252
Spe 252
Swords Dance
Moves
Seed Bomb / Bullet Seed
Ice Punch / Rain Dance / Zen Headbutt
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
HP 4
Atk 252
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Ludicolo is a Pokemon that can work well in just about any tier. It has great typing offensively: Water / Grass STAB moves coupled with Ice Beam boast perfect neutral coverage (aside from against the irrelevant Shedinja); and defensively: a 4x resistance against Water-type attacks is a big plus, on top of handy resistances to Ground and Steel. More perks that Ludicolo can lay claims to include decent Special Attack and special bulk, access to abilities that allow it to excel in the rain, and a movepool chock-full of options, both offensive and defensive. However, both Ludicolo's damage output and Speed are underwhelming outside of rain. Additionally, physical variants require a boost from Swords Dance to do any significant damage, and Ludicolo's attempts at sweeping are totally shut down by paralysis and hindered by Sticky Web. Finally, its middling physical bulk means that it can easily be overwhelmed by the abundance of physical attackers in the tier, and to top it off, Ludicolo suffers an unfortunate weakness to U-turn, a rather common attack in UU.

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
71.2%
Surf
56.8%
Scald
35.0%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
63.1%
Damp Rock
27.5%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc