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No. 0028 · Gen 1

Sandslash weakness and type

Hit SANDSLASH with Water, Grass and Ice for 2× damage.

Moves against Sandslash

2×Super effective

Water Grass Ice

½×Not very effective

0×No effect

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

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Abilities

Sand VeilNo change to type matchups
Sand RushNo change to type matchups

Base stats

HP75
Attack100
Defense110
Sp. Atk45
Sp. Def55
Speed65
Total450

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 Sandslash gives 2 Defense EVs.

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How Sandslash evolves

Your game

SandshrewGround

Level 22
SandslashGround

Alolan SandshrewIceSteel

Use Ice Stone
Alolan SandslashIceSteel

What Sandslash 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
Steel	Steel Roller	Physical	130
Poison	Gunk Shot	Physical	120
Ground	Earthquakesame type	Physical	100
Rock	Stone Edge	Physical	100
Bug	Leech Life	Physical	80
Dark	Throat Chop	Physical	80
Ghost	Shadow Claw	Physical	70
Flying	Aerial Ace	Physical	60

Type counters to Sandslash

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.

Other forms

Alolan SandslashIce/Steel