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gigalith
#526

Gigalith

Compressed Pokémon

Rock

The blasts of energy it makes from sunbeams have terrifying power. However, it’s not able to fire its blasts at night or on rainy days.

Base Stats

HP 85
Attack 135
Defense 130
Sp. Atk 60
Sp. Def 80
Speed 25
Total 515

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

boldore Boldore Lv. 25
gigalith Gigalith Trade

Moves

Details

Category Compressed Pokémon
Height 1.7 m
Weight 260.0 kg
Base Exp 232
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Mineral

Sprites

gigalith Front Front
gigalith Back Back
gigalith Front Shiny Front Shiny
gigalith Back Shiny Back Shiny
gigalith Official Art Official Art
gigalith Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Bulky Laser Focus
Item
Rockium Z
Ability
Sand Stream
Nature
Careful
EVs
HP 252
Atk 4
SpD 252

Strategy Overview

Boasting decent stats, good abilities, and a shallow-yet-usable movepool, Gigalith is an anti-metagame Pokemon that can beat some common foes in the 1v1 metagame like special and Flyinium Z Dragonite, Mega Charizard X, Mega Charizard Y, and Porygon-Z. Its overall bulk lets it tank some hits like an Outrage from Mega Charizard X and special attacks like Solar Beam from Mega Charizard Y and, when further enhanced by Sand Stream, more powerful special attacks like Dragonium Z-boosted Draco Meteor from Dragonite, Draco Meteor from Naganadel, Shattered Psyche from boosted bulky Tapu Lele, and Hyper Beam from Mega Gardevoir. It also has access to setup moves like Curse and, more importantly, Laser Focus, which, in tandem with each other, let Gigalith beat bulkier threats like Mega Altaria and Noble Roar Kyurem. Its mono-Rock typing makes it less vulnerable to attacks from Grass-, Fighting-, and Steel-types that would threaten other prominent Rock-types, giving it a niche over Mega Tyranitar, Golem, and Mega Diancie. In spite of all this, Gigalith is weak offensively to common types in the 1v1 metagame like Steel, Ground, and Fighting. This puts it at a disadvantage against Pokemon like Magearna, Zygarde, and Kommo-o, which can set up against Gigalith and knock it out. Also, its subpar Speed means it can't beat fast Pokemon dependent on status moves to win, like Smeargle and Jumpluff. Without setting up, it lacks the offensive punch to KO bulkier Pokemon, so Taunt from Pokemon like Mega Gyarados effectively prevent Gigalith from setting up. This also leaves it unable to beat physically bulky Pokemon immune to critical hits, like Mega Slowbro and Type: Null. All this severely reduces its usability in favor of other Rock-type Pokemon like Mega Diancie and Terrakion.

Most Used Moves

Stone Edge
100.0%
Curse
98.3%
Protect
84.3%

Most Used Items

Rockium Z
100.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc