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toxicroak
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Toxicroak

Toxic Mouth Pokémon

PoisonFighting

It has a poison sac at its throat. When it croaks, the stored poison is churned for greater potency.

Base Stats

HP 83
Attack 106
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 86
Sp. Def 65
Speed 85
Total 490

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Toxic Mouth Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 44.4 kg
Base Exp 172
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 75
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Humanshape

Sprites

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

Competitive

nu Usage: 4.7%
Swords Dance
Item
Leftovers / Life Orb
Ability
Dry Skin
Nature
Jolly / Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Tera Type
Dark
Nasty Plot
Item
Life Orb / Leftovers
Ability
Dry Skin
Nature
Timid / Modest
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Tera Type
DarkFighting

Strategy Overview

Toxicroak stands out for having the rare combination of Dry Skin and a great typing both offensively and defensively, which makes it the premier switch-in to Water-types like Vaporeon, Milotic, Paldean Tauros-W, Basculegion, and Inteleon. Toxicroak is also less susceptible to being revenge killed after it has set up; its access to priority moves makes it a lot harder to revenge kill despite its middling Speed. However, Toxicroak's biggest problem is its frailty; if it switches into any non-Water-type attack from these threats, it gets easily 2HKOed, but Toxicroak's good defensive typing gives it more opportunities to set up against foes like Vileplume, Choice Scarf Mienshao, and Tsareena. Toxicroak also struggles against physically defensive Ground- and Poison-types like Palossand, Galarian Slowbro, and Dragalge, as they can take both of its STAB attacks and proceed to threaten Toxicroak back with their own STAB moves. Additionally, Toxicroak also faces Fighting-type competition with Mienshao and Breloom, which are both stronger, making them more consistent at times.

Most Used Moves

Gunk Shot
87.6%
Knock Off
12.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
58.7%
Life Orb
28.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc