Empoleon

No. 0395 · Gen 4

Empoleon weakness and type

Hit EMPOLEON with Electric, Fighting and Ground for 2× damage.

Moves against Empoleon

2×Super effective
¼×Barely scratches it
0×No effect

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

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Abilities

  • TorrentNo change to type matchups
  • CompetitiveNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP84
  • Attack86
  • Defense88
  • Sp. Atk111
  • Sp. Def101
  • Speed60
  • Total530

Best nature

ModestHits harder and drops Attack, which it won’t use.

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

Defeating Empoleon gives 3 Sp. Atk EVs.

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How Empoleon evolves

PiplupWater
All evolutions

What Empoleon 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
WaterHydro Cannonsame typeSpecial150
SteelSteel Beamsame typeSpecial140
IceBlizzardSpecial110
GroundEarthquakePhysical100
FlyingDrill PeckPhysical80
DarkThroat ChopPhysical80
RockRock SlidePhysical75
BugSignal BeamSpecial75
FightingBrick BreakPhysical75
GhostShadow ClawPhysical70
FairyDisarming VoiceSpecial40

Type counters to Empoleon

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.