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greninja
#658

Greninja

Ninja Pokémon

WaterDark

It creates throwing stars out of compressed water. When it spins them and throws them at high speed, these stars can split metal in two.

Base Stats

HP 72
Attack 95
Defense 67
Sp. Atk 103
Sp. Def 71
Speed 122
Total 530

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Torrent Protean (Hidden)

Forms

Evolution Chain

frogadier Frogadier Lv. 16
greninja Greninja Lv. 36

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Ninja Pokémon
Height 1.5 m
Weight 40.0 kg
Base Exp 239
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Water1

Sprites

greninja Front Front
greninja Back Back
greninja Front Shiny Front Shiny
greninja Back Shiny Back Shiny
greninja Official Art Official Art
greninja Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Choice Specs
Moves
Dark Pulse / Hidden Power Fire
Item
Choice Specs
Ability
Protean
Nature
Timid
EVs
SpA 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Substitute + Torrent
Moves
Work Up / Water Shuriken / Haze
Item
Petaya Berry / Waterium Z
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 76
Def 108
SpA 148
Spe 176

Strategy Overview

Greninja is a threatening Pokemon in the 1v1 metagame, with a good Special Attack and an amazing Speed tier that make it very threatening, being able to OHKO many threats like Mega Swampert, Zygarde-C, and Dragonite. Backing up that statline is access to Protean with a great movepool, giving it more offensive pressure with a STAB boost on all of its moves and a way to evade powerful attacks by changing to a type that resists them or is immune to them. A Substitute + Torrent set can also be used to beat threats to the Choice Specs set like specially defensive Mega Charizard X and Y, Mega Metagross, and Type: Null. By using the increased utility from forgoing coverage moves for options like Substitute, Work Up, and Taunt, Greninja can pump out a huge boosted Hydro Cannon while still using status moves to lock down foes. However, it is horribly frail, so any super effective moves against it will likely OHKO it, and it also falls to some strong neutral STAB attacks such as Adamant Haxorus's Outrage, Mega Lopunny's Giga Impact, and Mega Gyarados's Outrage. Greninja can also be defeated by faster Pokemon that can take advantage of its low defenses like Zeraora and bulkier ones that aren't afraid to take its hits like Kyurem

Most Used Moves

Ice Beam
61.1%
Gunk Shot
32.6%
Dig
19.6%

Most Used Items

Icium Z
6.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc