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grimmsnarl
#861

Grimmsnarl

Bulk Up Pokémon

DarkFairy

With the hair wrapped around its body helping to enhance its muscles, this Pokémon can overwhelm even Machamp.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 120
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 75
Speed 60
Total 510

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

morgrem Morgrem Lv. 32

Moves

Details

Category Bulk Up Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 61.0 kg
Base Exp 255
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 50
Gender 100% ♂ / 0% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Fairy ,Humanshape

Sprites

grimmsnarl Front Front
grimmsnarl Back Back
grimmsnarl Front Shiny Front Shiny
grimmsnarl Back Shiny Back Shiny
grimmsnarl Official Art Official Art
grimmsnarl Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Dual Screens
Item
Light Clay
Nature
Careful
EVs
HP 252
Def 92
SpD 164

Strategy Overview

Grimmsnarl is the premier dual screens setter in Ubers due to Prankster, Taunt, and STAB Play Rough to hit Dark-types immune to Prankster Taunt, including Yveltal. These qualities almost guarantee that Grimmsnarl will set up screens, helping a wide variety of offensive Pokemon set up. Grimmsnarl's bulk and typing enable it to switch into threats such as Marshadow, Calyrex-S, and Yveltal throughout the game, which gives the offensive teams a more favourable matchup versus these otherwise troublesome threats. However, Grimmsnarl struggles versus Pokemon that can set up against it and threaten a KO simultaneously, for example Xerneas and Necrozma-DM, which force it into a coinflip situation of setting up the appropriate screen or using Taunt. Additionally, teams featuring both Defog Ho-Oh and Yveltal can completely neutralize Grimmsnarl: when Grimmsnarl uses Taunt to stop Ho-Oh's Defog from removing screens, Ho-Oh can go for a Sacred Fire burn, which makes Play Rough so weak that Yveltal can freely come in and shut Grimmsnarl down with Defog.

Most Used Moves

Reflect
97.8%
Taunt
54.0%

Most Used Items

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc