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pangoro
#675

Pangoro

Daunting Pokémon

FightingDark

It boasts superb physical strength. Those who wish to become Pangoro’s Trainer have no choice but to converse with their fists.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 124
Defense 78
Sp. Atk 69
Sp. Def 71
Speed 58
Total 495

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

pangoro Pangoro Lv. 32

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Daunting Pokémon
Height 2.1 m
Weight 136.0 kg
Base Exp 173
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 65
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Ground ,Humanshape

Sprites

pangoro Front Front
pangoro Back Back
pangoro Front Shiny Front Shiny
pangoro Back Shiny Back Shiny
pangoro Official Art Official Art
pangoro Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ru Usage: 0.6%
Choice Band
Moves
Superpower / Gunk Shot / Thunder Punch
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252
Swords Dance
Item
Life Orb / Lum Berry
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
SpD 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Due to Pangoro's insane Attack stat, coverage, and STAB attacks, it has paved itself a path to being one of the scariest wallbreakers in the tier. Pangoro can utilize a Choice Band set, making it an even more powerful wallbreaker. In addition to this, Pangoro has access to Swords Dance, which can destroy teams that rely on passive cores such as Registeel + Slowbro if all of its checks have been removed from the field. However, it suffers from a fairly low Speed stat and poor defensive typing, which makes it revenge killed easily. Due to this, Defensive Pokemon such as Florges and Mandibuzz can neutralize it with enough Speed creep. In addition to Pangoro's Speed stat, it's typing gives it a weakness to Fairy-types, Flying-types, and Fighting-types such as Florges, Noivern, and Virizion, which are all very prominent in the tier. Furthermore, Pangoro has fierce competition with the plethora of other Fighting-types in the tier, including Virizion, Bewear, and Passimian, all of which either have better Speed tiers, reliable recovery, or better natural bulk. Due to this, finding a spot to fit Pangoro on a team is difficult, which ultimately results in its lack of usage. Although all of the former is true, Pangoro is extremely difficult to pivot around which makes it a valid option as a Fighting-type.

Most Used Moves

Knock Off
91.8%
Ice Punch
22.1%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
29.6%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc