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garchomp
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Garchomp

Mach Pokémon

DragonGround

When it folds up its body and extends its wings, it looks like a jet plane. It flies at sonic speed.

Base Stats

HP 108
Attack 130
Defense 95
Sp. Atk 80
Sp. Def 85
Speed 102
Total 600

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

gabite Gabite Lv. 24
garchomp Garchomp Lv. 48

Moves

Details

Category Mach Pokémon
Height 1.9 m
Weight 95.0 kg
Base Exp 270
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Monster ,Dragon

Sprites

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

Competitive

I'd Go Chomper Here (Choice Band)
Moves
Iron Tail / Poison Jab / Fling
Fire Fang / Poison Jab / Fling / Swords Dance
Item
Choice Band
Ability
Rough Skin
Nature
Jolly / Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Choice Band Garchomp's sky-high Attack stat combined with its strong movepool and nice Speed tier makes it a premier offensive presence in the metagame. Its Speed stat allows it to just barely outspeed base 100 Speed Pokemon like Mega Gardevoir, Mega Medicham, and Volcarona, which makes running Choice Scarf not much of a necessity. A useful Dragon / Ground typing gives it a powerful STAB Outrage and Earthquake able to take down common metagame threats like non-Choice Scarf Kyurem-B, non-defensive Mega Mawile, and Aegislash. Despite having a powerful offensive presence, there's much to be desired for with Garchomp's defensive capabilities. Almost any Pokemon holding a Choice Scarf, like Porygon-Z, Kyurem-B, Genesect, and Dragonite, can outspeed and KO it with ease. It also has a hard time against threats that naturally outspeed it like Mega Lopunny and Greninja. Garchomp also struggles with physically defensive Pokemon that it can't KO turn one, such as Metal Burst Mega Mawile, Mega Gyarados, and Mega Altaria, and they can usually KO Garchomp outright or after setting up.

Most Used Moves

Outrage
98.4%
Iron Head
30.9%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
15.8%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc