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kabutops
#141

Kabutops

Shellfish Pokémon

RockWater

In the water, it tucks in its limbs to become more compact, then it wiggles its shell to swim fast.

Base Stats

HP 60
Attack 115
Defense 105
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 70
Speed 80
Total 495

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

kabutops Kabutops Lv. 40

Moves

Details

Category Shellfish Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 40.5 kg
Base Exp 173
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Sea
Egg Groups Water1 ,Water3

Sprites

kabutops Front Front
kabutops Back Back
kabutops Front Shiny Front Shiny
kabutops Back Shiny Back Shiny
kabutops Official Art Official Art
kabutops Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

ou Usage: 0.4%
Physical Attacker
Moves
Swords Dance / Rapid Spin
Aqua Jet / Low Kick
Item
Life Orb
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Kabutops is one of the best Pokemon on rain hyper offense, due to its ability, Swift Swim, and great Attack, which lets it 2HKO some of the best physical walls in the OU metagame after a Swords Dance. While Kabutops has a small movepool, it has everything it needs. The only Pokemon not covered by its STAB moves alone, Ferrothorn, loses to a Swords Dance-boosted Low Kick. Gastrodon and Chesnaught are 2HKOed by Low Kick on the switch as well. Another great trait about Kabutops is that it stops Talonflame on rain offense teams. However, despite all that Kabutops has going for it, it does have some flaws, including lackluster Special Defense and a mediocre defensive typing, meaning that its decent Defense stat rarely comes into play. Another glaring flaw is that outside of rain, Kabutops isn't an excellent Pokemon due to the huge drop in Speed. Nonetheless, Kabutops is an excellent sweeper to use on rain teams.

Most Used Moves

Waterfall
93.5%
Aqua Jet
90.3%

Most Used Items

Life Orb
87.1%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc