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garbodor
#569

Garbodor

Trash Heap Pokémon

Poison

Beware the poisonous liquid it shoots from its right arm. If even a little of it gets on you, you’ll experience the effects of the unidentified toxin.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 95
Defense 82
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 82
Speed 75
Total 474

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Trash Heap Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 107.3 kg
Base Exp 166
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

garbodor Front Front
garbodor Back Back
garbodor Front Shiny Front Shiny
garbodor Back Shiny Back Shiny
garbodor Official Art Official Art
garbodor Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 0.1%
Physically Defensive Spikes
Item
Rocky Helmet
Ability
Aftermath
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpD 4

Strategy Overview

Garbodor fills a small niche as a physically defensive Spikes setter that can fit on certain entry hazard-stacking teams, as its pure Poison typing and respectable defensive stats give Garbodor many points of entry against enemy Fighting-, Fairy-, and Steel-types such as Virizion, Machamp, Toxicroak, Florges, and Registeel, which it can serve as a check to while laying down Spikes. Its ability in Aftermath ensures substantial chip damage on many of these Pokemon as Garbodor faints. Its access to a 100% accurate Toxic makes it an annoyance for many potential entry hazard removers like Mega Blastoise, Mandibuzz, and even Donphan to switch into, allowing it to keep Spikes on the field in longer battles. However, Garbodor has a nasty weakness to Psychic-types such as Necrozma and Slowbro. In addition to this, Garbodor's Poison typing does it no favors against RU's multitude of specially attacking Poison-types such as Salazzle, Nidoqueen, and Dragalge, which can force it out thanks to their strong attacks. Garbodor hates taking residual damage of any sort, as between a lack of Black Sludge recovery and Pain Split's unreliability, Garbodor can be hard-pressed to keep itself healthy. Compounding this, it's also vulnerable to all forms of entry hazards besides Toxic Spikes, dislikes Scald burns, and detests having its Rocky Helmet removed.

Most Used Moves

Spikes
99.9%
Gunk Shot
93.9%
Explosion
78.9%
Toxic
9.4%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc