Hippowdon

No. 0450 · Gen 4

Hippowdon weakness and type

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

Moves against Hippowdon

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

  • HP108
  • Attack112
  • Defense118
  • Sp. Atk68
  • Sp. Def72
  • Speed47
  • Total525

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 Hippowdon gives 2 Defense EVs.

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How Hippowdon evolves

HippopotasGround
  • Level 34
    HippowdonGround
All evolutions

What Hippowdon 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
FightingSuperpowerPhysical120
GroundEarthquakesame typePhysical100
RockStone EdgePhysical100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
WaterMuddy WaterSpecial90
DarkCrunchPhysical80
ElectricThunder FangPhysical65
IceIce FangPhysical65
FireFire FangPhysical65

Type counters to Hippowdon

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.