Hitmontop
Handstand Pokémon
If you become enchanted by its smooth, elegant, dance-like kicks, you may get drilled hard.
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Strategy Overview
Hitmontop offers a very niche combination of Rapid Spin and Foresight to clear entry hazards against Ghost-type Pokemon and is a reliable check to Dark-type Pokemon such as Incineroar and Sneasel. Outside of this niche, however, other hazard removers and Fighting-type Pokemon offer much more utility or power. Hitmontop's exploitable weaknesses, lack of reliable recovery, and only good bulk mean that it gets worn down incredibly quickly without Wish support, leaving it very easily taken advantage of. It also relies on only Fighting-type STAB attacks and Toxic for damage, so it is easily walled by Fighting-resistant and Poison-immune Pokemon such as Garbodor, Weezing, and Golbat. This means that Hitmontop only finds a secure niche on stall teams that need a decent Incineroar check and entry hazard control.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc