Hippopotas

No. 0449 · Gen 4

Hippopotas weakness and type

Hit HIPPOPOTAS with Water, Grass and Ice for 2× damage.

Moves against Hippopotas

2×Super effective
½×Not very effective
0×No effect

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

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Abilities

  • Sand StreamNo change to type matchups
  • Sand ForceNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP68
  • Attack72
  • Defense78
  • Sp. Atk38
  • Sp. Def42
  • Speed32
  • Total330

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 Hippopotas gives 1 Defense EV.

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How Hippopotas evolves

HippopotasGround
All evolutions

What Hippopotas 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
NormalDouble-EdgePhysical120
FightingSuperpowerPhysical120
GroundEarthquakesame typePhysical100
RockStone EdgePhysical100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
WaterMuddy WaterSpecial90
DarkCrunchPhysical80
ElectricThunder FangPhysical65
IceIce FangPhysical65
FireFire FangPhysical65

Type counters to Hippopotas

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.