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Hippowdon

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Hippowdon カバルドン

Ground Generation IV Heavyweight Pokémon
Height 2.0m Weight 300.0kg
Sand Stream Sand Force (Hidden Ability)

Pokémon Profile

It blasts internally stored sand from ports on its body to create a towering twister for attack.

Base Stats

Form Base Stats：Hippowdon · Total 525

HP 108
Attack 112
Defense 118
Sp. Atk 68
Sp. Def 72
Speed 47

Basic Info

Gender Ratio
♂ 50% / ♀ 50%
Catch Rate
60（7.8%）
Egg Groups
Field
Egg Cycles
30
Base Friendship
50
EV Yield
Defense+2
Base Experience
184
Shape
Quadrupedal
Color
Brown
Experience
1,250,000（Slow）

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Defensive (when attacked)

2× Weakness Water ×2 Grass ×2 Ice ×2
Immune Electric ×0
1/2 Resistance Poison ×0.5 Rock ×0.5

Offensive (when attacking)

2× Weakness Fire ×2 Electric ×2 Poison ×2 Rock ×2 Steel ×2
Immune Flying ×0
1/2 Resistance Grass ×0.5 Bug ×0.5

Evolution Chain

Hippopotas Hippopotas
Level 34 or higher
Hippowdon Hippowdon

Learnset

Level Moves Type Category Power Accuracy PP
— Fire Fang Fire Physical 65 95 15
— Thunder Fang Electric Physical 65 95 15
— Yawn Normal Status — — 10
— Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95 15
— Sand Attack Ground Status — 100 15
— Tackle Normal Physical 40 100 35
— Bite Dark Physical 60 100 25
12 Sand Tomb Ground Physical 35 85 15
16 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
20 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100 15
24 Sandstorm Rock Status — — 10
28 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
32 Roar Normal Status — — 20
38 Rest Psychic Status — — 5
44 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 10
50 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
56 Fissure Ground Physical — 30 5
62 Slack Off Normal Status — — 5

Wild Encounters

Generation IV

Diamond

Sinnoh

Location Level Method Chance
Route 228Lv.52WalkingMorning10%
Lv.52WalkingDay10%
Lv.54WalkingPoké Radar: off10%

Pearl

Sinnoh

Location Level Method Chance
Route 228Lv.52WalkingMorning10%
Lv.52WalkingDay10%
Lv.54WalkingPoké Radar: off10%

Platinum

Sinnoh

Location Level Method Chance
Route 228Lv.50WalkingMorning10%
Lv.50WalkingDay10%
Lv.51Walking10%
Generation VII

Ultra Moon

Alola

Location Level Method Chance
Ultra Space WildsLv.60Static encounter15%

Ultra Sun

Alola

Location Level Method Chance
Ultra Space WildsLv.60Static encounter15%

Hippowdon Competitive Movesets & Sets

Hippowdon movesets cover 6 generations and 29 formats with 34 sets in total, including moves, abilities, items, natures, EVs and Tera types with analysis.

6 Generation 29 Format 34 set
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Pokédex Entries

Generation IV
Diamond：
It blasts internally stored sand from ports on its body to create a towering twister for attack.
Pearl：
Its huge mouth is almost seven feet across. It has enough power to completely crush a car.
Platinum：
It is surprisingly quick to anger. It holds its mouth agape as a display of its strength.
HeartGold：
It brandishes its gaping mouth in a display of fearsome strength. It raises vast quantities of sand while attacking.
Generation V
Black：
It is surprisingly quick to anger. It holds its mouth agape as a display of its strength.
Generation VI
X：
It brandishes its gaping mouth in a display of fearsome strength. It raises vast quantities of sand while attacking.
Y：
It blasts internally stored sand from ports on its body to create a towering twister for attack.
Generation VIII
Sword：
Stones can get stuck in the ports on their bodies. Dwebble help dislodge such stones, so Hippowdon look after these Pokémon.
Shield：
When roused to violence by its rage, it spews out the quantities of sand it has swallowed and whips up a sandstorm.
Legends: Arceus：
Short-tempered and easily moved to violence. It whips up whirlwinds of sand to crush its foes' spirits, then goes in for the attack.