Garbodor
Trash Heap Pokémon
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.
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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.
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