Cloyster

No. 0091 · Gen 1

Cloyster weakness and type

WaterIce

Hit CLOYSTER with Electric, Grass, Fighting and Rock for 2× damage.

Moves against Cloyster

2×Super effective
ElectricGrassFightingRock
½×Not very effective
Water
¼×Barely scratches it
Ice

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

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Abilities

  • Shell ArmorNo change to type matchups
  • Skill LinkNo change to type matchups
  • OvercoatNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP50
  • Attack95
  • Defense180
  • Sp. Atk85
  • Sp. Def45
  • Speed70
  • Total525

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 Cloyster gives 2 Defense EVs.

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How Cloyster evolves

ShellderWater
  • Use Water Stone
    CloysterWaterIce
All evolutions

What Cloyster 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
NormalExplosionPhysical250
SteelSteel RollerPhysical130
WaterHydro Pumpsame typeSpecial110
IceBlizzardsame typeSpecial110
GroundDrill RunPhysical80
PoisonPoison JabPhysical80
BugSignal BeamSpecial75
DarkPaybackPhysical50
RockRock BlastPhysical25

Type counters to Cloyster

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.