Piplup

No. 0393 · Gen 4

Piplup weakness and type

Water

Hit PIPLUP with Electric and Grass for 2× damage.

Moves against Piplup

2×Super effective
ElectricGrass
½×Not very effective
FireWaterIceSteel

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

  • HP53
  • Attack51
  • Defense53
  • Sp. Atk61
  • Sp. Def56
  • Speed40
  • Total314

Best nature

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

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

Defeating Piplup gives 1 Sp. Atk EV.

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How Piplup evolves

PiplupWater
All evolutions

What Piplup 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
WaterHydro Pumpsame typeSpecial110
IceBlizzardSpecial110
FlyingDrill PeckPhysical80
GroundDigPhysical80
FightingBrick BreakPhysical75
BugSignal BeamSpecial75
RockRock TombPhysical60
FairyDisarming VoiceSpecial40
DarkPower TripPhysical20

Type counters to Piplup

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.