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lotad
#270

Lotad

Water Weed Pokémon

WaterGrass

It looks like an aquatic plant and serves as a ferry to Pokémon that can’t swim.

Base Stats

HP 40
Attack 30
Defense 30
Sp. Atk 40
Sp. Def 50
Speed 30
Total 220

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Water Weed Pokémon
Height 0.5 m
Weight 2.6 kg
Base Exp 44
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 255
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat Waters Edge
Egg Groups Water1 ,Plant

Sprites

lotad Front Front
lotad Back Back
lotad Front Shiny Front Shiny
lotad Back Shiny Back Shiny
lotad Official Art Official Art
lotad Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

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Rain Sweeper
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Modest
EVs
Def 116
SpA 196
Spe 196

Strategy Overview

Lotad differentiates itself from other Swift Swim users with its perfect neutral coverage and key neutralities to Electric- and Grass-type attacks. However, with such abysmal stats across the board, Lotad is still a dysfunctional Swift Swim user, facing fierce competition for teamslots from Pokemon such as Omanyte and Mantyke. Furthermore, rain hyper offensive playstyles are exceedingly rare, making it even harder for Lotad to find its way onto teams. Lastly, Lotad is picked off easily by priority attackers such as Timburr due to its lack of Eviolite and terrible bulk. Lotad is also exceedingly slow, outsped by Choice Scarf users such as Pawniard even under rain.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc