Tentacruel

No. 0073 · Gen 1

Tentacruel weakness and type

Hit TENTACRUEL with Electric, Ground and Psychic for 2× damage.

Moves against Tentacruel

2×Super effective

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

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Abilities

  • Clear BodyNo change to type matchups
  • Liquid OozeNo change to type matchups
  • Rain DishNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP80
  • Attack70
  • Defense65
  • Sp. Atk80
  • Sp. Def120
  • Speed100
  • Total515

Best nature

CalmRaises its best defense and drops Attack, which it won't use.

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

Defeating Tentacruel gives 2 Sp. Def EVs.

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How Tentacruel evolves

TentacoolWaterPoison
  • Level 30
    TentacruelWaterPoison
All evolutions

What Tentacruel 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
NormalHyper BeamSpecial150
PoisonGunk Shotsame typePhysical120
WaterHydro Pumpsame typeSpecial110
IceBlizzardSpecial110
DarkThroat ChopPhysical80
FairyDazzling GleamSpecial80
GrassGiga DrainSpecial75
BugSkitter SmackPhysical70
GhostHexSpecial65
GroundMud ShotSpecial55

Type counters to Tentacruel

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.