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hippowdon
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Hippowdon

Heavyweight Pokémon

Ground

It blasts internally stored sand from ports on its body to create a towering twister for attack.

Base Stats

HP 108
Attack 112
Defense 118
Sp. Atk 68
Sp. Def 72
Speed 47
Total 525

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Heavyweight Pokémon
Height 2.0 m
Weight 300.0 kg
Base Exp 184
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 60
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

hippowdon Front Front
hippowdon Back Back
hippowdon Front Shiny Front Shiny
hippowdon Back Shiny Back Shiny
hippowdon Front ♀ Front ♀
hippowdon Back ♀ Back ♀
hippowdon Front Shiny ♀ Front Shiny ♀
hippowdon Back Shiny ♀ Back Shiny ♀
hippowdon Official Art Official Art
hippowdon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Physically Defensive
Item
Leftovers
Nature
Impish
EVs
HP 252
Def 112
SpD 144

Strategy Overview

Hippowdon's phenomenal bulk coupled with a solid typing and access to some good support moves in Stealth Rock, Whirlwind, and Slack Off allow it to act as a really good blanket check to some common threats such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Mawile, Mega Charizard X, and Tyranitar. Sand Stream helps when it comes to dealing with rain teams and Mega Charizard Y. Unfortunately, Hippowdon's Ground typing makes it weak to Grass-, Water-, and Ice-type attacks, which are used by very common Pokemon such as Tapu Bulu, Greninja, and Weavile. Hippowdon is also very passive; it's easily shut down by Taunt and can become setup fodder if it doesn't pack Whirlwind.

Most Used Moves

Slack Off
82.2%
Whirlwind
48.6%
Toxic
30.3%
Ice Fang
20.8%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
23.1%
Icium Z
1.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc