Garchomp
Mach Pokémon
When it folds up its body and extends its wings, it looks like a jet plane. It flies at sonic speed.
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Strategy Overview
Garchomp is a powerful and versatile threat in the CAP metagame thanks to its potent offensive STAB combination, high Attack, and good Speed. Garchomp is especially notable for its defensive set, which takes advantage of its good physical bulk, access to Stealth Rock, Rough Skin, and Rocky Helmet to heavily punish VoltTurn teams. Garchomp's capabilities extend far beyond this bulky set, however, as its wide offensive movepool and great base stats allow it to run a variety of offensive sets effectively, providing it with a layer of unpredictability. However, Garchomp's 4x weakness to Ice-type attacks and weakness to the common Fairy-type moves are somewhat easy to exploit and can leave it susceptible to revenge killing by numerous strong, fast attackers that run these moves, such as Syclant, Krilowatt, and Mega Diancie.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc