Sandile

No. 0551 · Gen 5

Sandile weakness and type

Hit SANDILE with Water, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Bug and Fairy for 2× damage.

Moves against Sandile

½×Not very effective
0×No effect

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

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Abilities

  • IntimidateNo change to type matchups
  • MoxieNo change to type matchups
  • Anger PointNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP50
  • Attack72
  • Defense35
  • Sp. Atk35
  • Sp. Def35
  • Speed65
  • Total292

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 Sandile gives 1 Attack EV.

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How Sandile evolves

SandileGroundDark
All evolutions

What Sandile 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
NormalThrashPhysical120
GroundEarthquakesame typePhysical100
RockStone EdgePhysical100
SteelIron TailPhysical100
DarkFoul Playsame typePhysical95
PoisonSludge BombSpecial90
WaterAqua TailPhysical90
FightingBrick BreakPhysical75
GhostShadow ClawPhysical70
BugSkitter SmackPhysical70
ElectricThunder FangPhysical65
FireFire FangPhysical65

Type counters to Sandile

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.