Tarountula

No. 0917 · Gen 9

Tarountula weakness and type

Hit TAROUNTULA with Fire, Flying and Rock for 2× damage.

Moves against Tarountula

2×Super effective
½×Not very effective

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

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Abilities

  • InsomniaNo change to type matchups
  • StakeoutNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP35
  • Attack41
  • Defense45
  • Sp. Atk29
  • Sp. Def40
  • Speed20
  • Total210

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 Tarountula gives 1 Defense EV.

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How Tarountula evolves

TarountulaBug
All evolutions

What Tarountula 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
NormalTake DownPhysical90
BugBug Buzzsame typeSpecial90
DarkThroat ChopPhysical80
PoisonPoison JabPhysical80
GrassGiga DrainSpecial75
GhostShadow ClawPhysical70
FightingCircle ThrowPhysical60

Type counters to Tarountula

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.