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toxicroak
#454

Toxicroak

Toxic Mouth Pokémon

PoisonFighting

It bounces toward opponents and gouges them with poisonous claws. No more than a scratch is needed to knock out its adversaries.

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: 6.2%
Swords Dance
Moves
Low Kick / Drain Punch
Sucker Punch / Knock Off / Earthquake
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Dry Skin
Nature
Adamant / Jolly
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Nasty Plot
Item
Life Orb
Ability
Dry Skin
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Dry Skin and Poison typing make Toxicroak the tier's premier offensive switch-in to Vaporeon, and with Swords Dance or Nasty Plot, it can consistently set up and break through defensive cores that revolve around it. These same traits also make Toxicroak a soft check to the other Water-types in the tier, switching into Starmie's and Inteleon's Hydro Pump and threatening them out. On top of that, Toxicroak only needs minimal chip damage to finish off bulkier builds or clean up against offense ones thanks to its priority Sucker Punch and Vacuum Wave. Toxicroak's main problems lie in its frailty, especially when coupled with Life Orb, giving it a hard time getting onto the field and setting up safely. Even +2 Toxicroak is easily revenge killed, with Pokemon like Talonflame and Salazzle consistently KOing it because of its poor defenses.

Most Used Moves

Gunk Shot
74.2%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
70.4%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc