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dondozo
#977

Dondozo

Big Catfish Pokémon

Water

This Pokémon is a glutton, but it’s bad at getting food. It teams up with a Tatsugiri to catch prey.

Base Stats

HP 150
Attack 100
Defense 115
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 65
Speed 35
Total 530

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Big Catfish Pokémon
Height 12.0 m
Weight 220.0 kg
Base Exp 265
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 25
Base Happiness 50
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Water2

Sprites

dondozo Front Front
dondozo Front Shiny Front Shiny
dondozo Official Art Official Art
dondozo Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Wall
Item
Heavy-Duty Boots
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4
Tera Type
FairyFlyingElectric

Strategy Overview

Dondozo is a niche Pokemon used on stall teams, where its great physical bulk in combination with Unaware allows it to stomach many hits from powerful physical attackers such as Extreme Killer Arceus, Koraidon, Zacian-C, Calyrex-I, and Dragon Dance Arceus-Ground. However, due to its incredibly passive nature and unreliable recovery in Rest, which is blocked by Miraidon's Hadron Engine and Taunt users like Landorus-T, Arceus, and Arceus-Ground, it is prone to being weakened throughout a game. Furthermore, Skeledirge, another common stall Pokemon, frequently competes with Dondozo for a team slot due to playing a similar role and having a means of reliable recovery in Slack Off.

Most Used Moves

Rest
93.0%
Fissure
52.0%
Curse
47.7%
Avalanche
22.4%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
59.6%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc