Araquanid
Water Bubble Pokémon
It delivers headbutts with the water bubble on its head. Small Pokémon get sucked into the bubble, where they drown.
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Strategy Overview
Araquanid is one of the most effective Trick Room attackers in the metagame thanks to its good bulk and natural offensive prowess with Water Bubble. Notably, its strong Hydro Vortex allows it to hit typically defensive Pokemon for great damage, hitting Snorlax and Porygon2 for 75% of their health and wiping out just about any other neutral hit. Araquanid's Water Bubble also allows it to ignore burns from the likes of Mimikyu and Arcanine, helping it keep up its physical prowess long into the game. Araquanid does have its shortcomings, however; its desire to use Water-type moves means that Gastrodon completely shuts it down, and it matches up poorly against the likes of Tapu Fini and Kartana, making it less effective against balance teams with good defensive synergy. Equally, after it has used its Z-Move, it is less effective at tackling the likes of Snorlax and Porygon2. Its typing also makes it vulnerable to some of the most common Z-Move users, notably Tapu Koko and Gigalith.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc