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weedle
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Weedle

Hairy Bug Pokémon

BugPoison

It eats its weight in leaves every day. It fends off attackers with the needle on its head.

Base Stats

HP 40
Attack 35
Defense 30
Sp. Atk 20
Sp. Def 20
Speed 50
Total 195

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

kakuna Kakuna Lv. 7
beedrill Beedrill Lv. 10

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Hairy Bug Pokémon
Height 0.3 m
Weight 3.2 kg
Base Exp 39
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

weedle Front Front
weedle Back Back
weedle Front Shiny Front Shiny
weedle Back Shiny Back Shiny
weedle Official Art Official Art
weedle Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

lc
Soon to be Kakuna
Item
Life Orb / Oran Berry / Choice Band
Nature
Adamant
EVs
HP 196
Atk 236
Def 36
Spe 36

Strategy Overview

Weedle boasts the prestigious "Smallest Movepool in all of Little Cup" award, trumping even Caterpie, Burmy, and the fearsome Magikarp with its minuteness. Utilizing its amazingly concise movepool, Weedle can act as an extreme nuisance to the other team, eating all Oran Berries in its path, poisoning unsuspecting victims who switch in thinking they can forge through a powerful Poison Sting, and crippling opposing sweepers with a tactical String Shot. Furthermore, Weedle has the highest Attack stat out of all the aforementioned limited-movepool behemoths, making it even more of a superior choice when considering one of the four for your team. However, it's not all rainbows and butterflies for Weedle (well, rainbows and bees I guess). Weedle is faced with fearsome competition, having to differentiate itself from hailed sweepers like Gligar, who is also able to learn Poison Sting, making it quite the rival for a team slot. When considering putting Weedle on your team, you must be sure to utilize its advantages over other Pokemon, mainly String Shot, Bug Bite, and Poison Sting. Although many other Pokemon learn these moves, I guarantee you that you will more than likely only see this potent combination on Weedle as they are the most effective moves he has.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc