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tauros
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Tauros

Wild Bull Pokémon

Normal

When it targets an enemy, it charges furiously while whipping its body with its long tails.

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 100
Defense 95
Sp. Atk 40
Sp. Def 70
Speed 110
Total 490

Type Effectiveness

Weak to
Immune to

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Wild Bull Pokémon
Height 1.4 m
Weight 88.4 kg
Base Exp 172
Growth Rate Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 100% ♂ / 0% ♀
Habitat Grassland
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

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tauros Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Standard
Moves
Substitute / Double-Edge
Stomp / Double-Edge / Earthquake / Thunderbolt

Strategy Overview

Tauros is the most powerful physical sweeper in the Stadium OU metagame. It has solid offensive stats backed up by a vast attacking movepool that contains Body Slam, Stomp, and coverage options in Blizzard, Earthquake, and Thunderbolt. In addition, its superb base 110 Speed lets it outpace most Pokemon in the metagame and grants it a noteworthy critical hit rate of 18%. However, Tauros has to avoid status at all costs to remain a threat. The reduced viability of Hyper Beam compared to standard RBY does it no favors either, as it now has more difficulty breaking through staples like Snorlax, Exeggutor, and Chansey, as well as knocking out status inducers before they can cripple it. Tauros can run Substitute to avoid status, but this drops Tauros's HP to the point of putting it in 2HKO range of many common threats. Despite these shortcomings, Tauros is a great pick for most Stadium OU teams.

Most Used Moves

Body Slam
100.0%
Blizzard
99.9%
Stomp
9.6%

Most Used Items

Nothing
100.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc