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garchomp
#445

Garchomp

Mach Pokémon

DragonGround

Garchomp makes its home in volcanic mountains. It flies through the sky as fast as a jet airplane, hunting down as much prey as it can.

Base Stats

HP 108
Attack 130
Defense 95
Sp. Atk 80
Sp. Def 85
Speed 102
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

gabite Gabite Lv. 24
garchomp Garchomp Lv. 48

Moves

Details

Category Mach Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 95.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Monster ,Dragon

Sprites

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

Competitive

Swords Dance
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Rough Skin
Nature
Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Garchomp finds its use on Sticky Web hyper offense teams as a decent Swords Dance sweeper. Its coverage allows it to break through common Defog users like Ho-Oh and Yveltal, making it a valuable teammate to keep entry hazards up for the rest of the team. With Rough Skin and solid natural bulk, Garchomp gets opportunities to set up on defensive Pokemon like Necrozma-DM and Tyranitar, letting it wallbreak with its strong STAB moves, incredibly high Attack, Swords Dance, and Life Orb. Garchomp does sometimes find it hard to set up against faster teams with Pokemon like Choice Scarf Yveltal, Eternatus, and Calyrex-S, and its reliance on taking a turn to set up means that checks such as Lunala, Tangrowth, and Buzzwole can switch in and stonewall it usually, leaving it an inconsistent but powerful wallbreaker.

Most Used Moves

Most Used Items

Life Orb
40.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc