Cranidos

No. 0408 · Gen 4

Cranidos weakness and type

Hit CRANIDOS with Water, Grass, Fighting, Ground and Steel for 2× damage.

Moves against Cranidos

½×Not very effective

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

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Abilities

  • Mold BreakerNo change to type matchups
  • Sheer ForceNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP67
  • Attack125
  • Defense40
  • Sp. Atk30
  • Sp. Def30
  • Speed58
  • Total350

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 Cranidos gives 1 Attack EV.

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How Cranidos evolves

CranidosRock
All evolutions

What Cranidos 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
RockHead Smashsame typePhysical150
NormalThrashPhysical120
FightingSuperpowerPhysical120
FireFire BlastSpecial110
ElectricThunderSpecial110
IceBlizzardSpecial110
GroundEarthquakePhysical100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
DragonDragon PulseSpecial85
DarkCrunchPhysical80
PsychicZen HeadbuttPhysical80
GrassTrailblazePhysical50

Type counters to Cranidos

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.