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vigoroth
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Vigoroth

Wild Monkey Pokémon

Normal

VIGOROTH is always itching and agitated to go on a wild rampage. It simply can’t tolerate sitting still for even a minute. This POKéMON’s stress level rises if it can’t be moving constantly.

Base Stats

HP 80
Attack 80
Defense 80
Sp. Atk 55
Sp. Def 55
Speed 90
Total 440

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Evolution Chain

vigoroth Vigoroth Lv. 18
slaking Slaking Lv. 36

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Wild Monkey Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 46.5 kg
Base Exp 154
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 120
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Forest
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

vigoroth Front Front
vigoroth Back Back
vigoroth Front Shiny Front Shiny
vigoroth Back Shiny Back Shiny
vigoroth Official Art Official Art
vigoroth Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

zu Usage: 0.8%
Bulk Up
Moves
Facade / Return
Taunt / Substitute
Item
Eviolite
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 252
SpD 164
Spe 92

Strategy Overview

Vigoroth is a fantastic defensive sweeper. Thanks to its great bulk and access to reliable recovery, common offensive Pokemon such as Golem and Choice Scarf Electivire can't 2HKO Vigoroth and therefore are rendered setup fodder. Vigoroth only needs a few EVs to outspeed Monferno and common defensive Pokémon such as Altaria and Probopass. This, coupled with Taunt or Substitute, allows Vigoroth to use them as setup fodder as well. However although Vigoroth's bulk is great, if it loses its Eviolite, Vigoroth becomes more specially frail, and giving it a harder time setting up and making it easier to revenge kill. Vigoroth faces competition from the several other Normal-types in ZU, most notably Bulk Up Komala, which, despite being worse at defensive sweping, is far more versatile. Also, Vigoroth doesn't benefit from its pure Normal typing, which doesn't bring it any useful resistances. Vigoroth also can't afford to run anything other than a Normal STAB move as an attack and therefore needs several Attack boosts to break through Pokemon that resist Normal such as Bronzor and Probopass. In addition, Vigoroth is unable to touch Ghost-types such as Gourgeist-XL and Misdreavus and relies on PP stall to beat them. Since Vigoroth needs several turns to set up, it is unable to perform its role if it gets poisoned, making it very vulnerable to Toxic Spikes. Vigoroth is also vulnerable to Trick / Switcheroo from Choice item users, which locks it into one move and prevents it from setting up.

Most Used Moves

Slack Off
99.1%
Taunt
86.3%
Bulk Up
78.9%
Facade
43.3%
Body Slam
12.1%

Most Used Items

Eviolite
99.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc