Ninetales

No. 0038 · Gen 1

Ninetales weakness and type

Hit NINETALES with Water, Ground and Rock for 2× damage.

Moves against Ninetales

2×Super effective
½×Not very effective

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

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Abilities

  • Flash FireImmune to Fire
  • DroughtNo change to type matchups

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Base stats

  • HP73
  • Attack76
  • Defense75
  • Sp. Atk81
  • Sp. Def100
  • Speed100
  • Total505

Best nature

CalmRaises its best defense and drops Attack, which it won't use.

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

Defeating Ninetales gives 1 Sp. Def EV, 1 Speed EV.

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How Ninetales evolves

VulpixFire
  • Use Fire Stone
    NinetalesFire
All evolutions

What Ninetales 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
FireOverheatsame typeSpecial130
GrassSolar BeamSpecial120
PsychicDream EaterSpecial100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
DarkFoul PlayPhysical95
GroundDigPhysical80
GhostShadow BallSpecial80

Type counters to Ninetales

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.

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