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snorlax
#143

Snorlax

Sleeping Pokémon

Normal

It is not satisfied unless it eats over 880 pounds of food every day. When it is done eating, it goes promptly to sleep.

Base Stats

HP 160
Attack 110
Defense 65
Sp. Atk 65
Sp. Def 110
Speed 30
Total 540

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Abilities

Held Items

Evolution Chain

snorlax Snorlax Happiness 160

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Sleeping Pokémon
Height 2.1 m
Weight 460.0 kg
Base Exp 189
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 25
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Monster

Sprites

snorlax Front Front
snorlax Back Back
snorlax Front Shiny Front Shiny
snorlax Back Shiny Back Shiny
snorlax Official Art Official Art
snorlax Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

almostanyability
Poison Heal CurseLax
Item
Toxic Orb
Ability
Poison Heal
Nature
Careful
EVs
HP 108
Def 168
SpD 232

Strategy Overview

Snorlax can be considered one of the most predictable Pokemon in the metagame, with almost every set being a CurseLax variant. Even with this disadvantage, Snorlax can still be utilized as a fantastic wincon as well as a wallbreaker that always moves last. With both an amazing HP and Special Defense stat as well as its lone weakness to Fighting, Snorlax can set up Curses on a large portion of special and physical attackers. Its main setup move, Curse, helps it boost its lackluster Defense, making it almost unbreakable after only a couple uses. Its main ability is Poison Heal, giving Snorlax excellent passive recovery as well as boosting Facade to a 140-Base Power STAB move. Poison Heal also gives it the ability to become an excellent status absorber after Toxic Orb activates. Although this Pokemon can be walled by a lot of common walls like Doublade and Skarmory, it's certainly one that is hard to pass up.

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc