Chikorita

No. 0152 · Gen 2

Chikorita weakness and type

Hit CHIKORITA with Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying and Bug for 2× damage.

Moves against Chikorita

2×Super effective
½×Not very effective

In Pokémon GO: Fire deals 1.6× instead of 2×. GO chart

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Abilities

  • OvergrowNo change to type matchups
  • Leaf GuardNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP45
  • Attack49
  • Defense65
  • Sp. Atk49
  • Sp. Def65
  • Speed45
  • Total318

Best nature

ImpishRaises its best defense and drops Sp. Atk, which it won't use.

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

Defeating Chikorita gives 1 Sp. Def EV.

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How Chikorita evolves

ChikoritaGrass
All evolutions

What Chikorita 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
GrassLeaf Stormsame typeSpecial130
NormalDouble-EdgePhysical120
SteelIron TailPhysical100
RockAncient PowerSpecial60
BugFury CutterPhysical40
GroundMud-SlapSpecial20

Type counters to Chikorita

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.