Barbaracle

No. 0689 · Gen 6

Barbaracle weakness and type

Hit BARBARACLE with Grass for 4× damage. Electric, Fighting and Ground also deal 2×.

Moves against Barbaracle

4×Hits hardest
2×Super effective
½×Not very effective
¼×Barely scratches it

In Pokémon GO: Grass deals 2.56× instead of 4×. GO chart

Test a matchup against Barbaracle

Abilities

  • Tough ClawsNo change to type matchups
  • SniperNo change to type matchups
  • PickpocketNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP72
  • Attack105
  • Defense115
  • Sp. Atk54
  • Sp. Def86
  • Speed68
  • Total500

Best nature

AdamantHits harder and drops Sp. Atk, which it won’t use.

Worked out from base stats. Your team may need something else.

Defeating Barbaracle gives 2 Attack EVs.

Calculate Barbaracle's stats

How Barbaracle evolves

BinacleRockWater
  • Level 39
    BarbaracleRockWater
All evolutions

What Barbaracle can hit with

The strongest attacking move it can learn in each type, across all games. Not every game has every move. Same-type moves get a 1.5× bonus.

TypeMoveKindPower
NormalHyper BeamSpecial150
RockMeteor Beamsame typeSpecial120
FightingSuperpowerPhysical120
IceBlizzardSpecial110
GroundEarthquakePhysical100
PoisonSludge WaveSpecial95
WaterSurfsame typeSpecial90
BugX-ScissorPhysical80
DragonDragon ClawPhysical80
DarkNight SlashPhysical70
GhostShadow ClawPhysical70
FlyingAerial AcePhysical60

Type counters to Barbaracle

Regular Pokémon whose same-type moves hit it hard and who take little from its same-type moves. Picked from types and base stats only, not movesets.

Other forms