No. 0034 · Gen 1
Nidoking weakness and type
Hit NIDOKING with Water, Ice, Ground and Psychic for 2× damage.
Moves against Nidoking
2×Super effective
½×Not very effective
¼×Barely scratches it
0×No effect
In Pokémon GO: Water deals 1.6× instead of 2×. GO chart
Test a matchup against NidokingAbilities
- Poison PointNo change to type matchups
- RivalryNo change to type matchups
- Sheer ForceNo change to type matchups
Base stats
- HP81
- Attack102
- Defense77
- Sp. Atk85
- Sp. Def75
- Speed85
- Total505
Best nature
AdamantHits harder and drops Sp. Atk, which it won’t use.
JollyOutspeeds more opponents and drops Sp. Atk.
Worked out from base stats. Your team may need something else.
Defeating Nidoking gives 3 Attack EVs.
Calculate Nidoking's statsHow Nidoking evolves
Nidoran♂Poison- Level 16
NidorinoPoison- Use Moon StoneNidokingPoisonGround
No evolution for this line in the game you picked.
What Nidoking 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.
| Type | Move | Kind | Power |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hyper Beam | Special | 150 |
| Fighting | Focus Punch | Physical | 150 |
| Dragon | Outrage | Physical | 120 |
| Bug | Megahorn | Physical | 120 |
| Fire | Fire Blast | Special | 110 |
| Ice | Blizzard | Special | 110 |
| Electric | Thunder | Special | 110 |
| Ground | Earthquakesame type | Physical | 100 |
| Rock | Stone Edge | Physical | 100 |
| Steel | Iron Tail | Physical | 100 |
| Poison | Sludge Wavesame type | Special | 95 |
| Water | Surf | Special | 90 |
| Dark | Throat Chop | Physical | 80 |
| Ghost | Shadow Ball | Special | 80 |
| Flying | Peck | Physical | 35 |
Type counters to Nidoking
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.
