Purrloin

No. 0509 · Gen 5

Purrloin weakness and type

Dark

Hit PURRLOIN with Fighting, Bug and Fairy for 2× damage.

Moves against Purrloin

2×Super effective
FightingBugFairy
½×Not very effective
GhostDark
0×No effect
Psychic

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

Test a matchup against Purrloin

Abilities

  • LimberNo change to type matchups
  • UnburdenNo change to type matchups
  • PranksterNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP41
  • Attack50
  • Defense37
  • Sp. Atk50
  • Sp. Def37
  • Speed66
  • Total281

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 Purrloin gives 1 Speed EV.

Calculate Purrloin's stats

How Purrloin evolves

PurrloinDark
All evolutions

What Purrloin 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
PoisonGunk ShotPhysical120
PsychicDream EaterSpecial100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
DarkFoul Playsame typePhysical95
NormalHyper VoiceSpecial90
FairyPlay RoughPhysical90
GhostShadow BallSpecial80
GrassSeed BombPhysical80
BugU-turnPhysical70
FlyingAerial AcePhysical60

Type counters to Purrloin

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.