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Greninja

Ninja Pokémon

WaterDark

It creates throwing stars out of compressed water. When it spins them and throws them at high speed, these stars can split metal in two.

Base Stats

HP 72

Attack 95

Defense 67

Sp. Atk 103

Sp. Def 71

Speed 122

Total 530

Type Effectiveness

Weak to

fighting 2x bug 2x grass 2x electric 2x fairy 2x

Resistant to

ghost ½x steel ½x fire ½x water ½x ice ½x dark ½x

Immune to

psychic 0x

Abilities

Torrent Protean (Hidden)

Forms

Greninja Battle Bond

Greninja Ash

Greninja Mega

Evolution Chain

Froakie

→

Frogadier Lv. 16

→

Greninja Lv. 36

Moves

Details

Category Ninja Pokémon

Height 1.5 m

Weight 40.0 kg

Base Exp 239

Growth Rate Medium Slow

Capture Rate 45

Base Happiness 70

Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀

Habitat —

Egg Groups Water1

Sprites

Front

Back

Front Shiny

Back Shiny

Official Art

Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ubers Usage: 1.1%

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Suicide Lead

Moves

Item

Focus Sash

Ability

Protean

Nature

Jolly

EVs

Atk 252

Def 4

Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Greninja has a high Speed stat that allows it to function well as a suicide lead in Ubers. Furthermore, Greninja has a great ability, Protean, which allows it to switch its type depending on what move it uses, meaning it can easily play around opponents. Greninja has a huge movepool with many status moves as well as physical and special moves. However, one of Greninja's downsides is its mediocre offensive stats and bulk. Additionally, Greninja can be stopped quite easily by faster offensive attackers. Lastly, Greninja faces huge competition from the Deoxys formes as a suicide lead, although its niche lies in Toxic Spikes and its ability to block Rapid Spin because of Protean Shadow Sneak.