#0565 · Generation 5

Carracosta

Carracosta has 495 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (108) and a Speed of 32. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 272, which makes it a bulky physical attacker.

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What Carracosta is weak to

Weak to: Grass (×4), Electric, Fighting, Ground. Resists: Normal, Fire (×0.25), Ice, Poison, Flying. Immune to: none. The ×4 weakness is the danger: one hit of Grass does huge damage.

Attacking typeDamage taken
Grass×4
Electric×2
Fighting×2
Ground×2
Normal×0.5
Ice×0.5
Poison×0.5
Flying×0.5
Fire×0.25

Base stats

HP74
Atk108
Def133
SpA83
SpD65
Spe32
Total495

Best teammates for Carracosta

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Carracosta: covering its weaknesses, adding attack types it lacks, and avoiding shared weaknesses.

  1. Tinkaton FairySteel

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  2. Klefki SteelFairy

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  3. Mawile SteelFairy

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  4. Scizor BugSteel

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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  5. Escavalier BugSteel

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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  6. Durant BugSteel

    Resists grass, which your team is weak to. Hits grass, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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Counters to Carracosta

  1. Breloom

    Grass and Fighting STAB hits Carracosta super effectively and it resists everything Carracosta can hit it with by type.

  2. Chesnaught

    Grass and Fighting STAB hits Carracosta super effectively and it resists everything Carracosta can hit it with by type.

  3. Great Tusk

    Ground and Fighting STAB hits Carracosta super effectively.

  4. Sandy Shocks

    Electric and Ground STAB hits Carracosta super effectively.

  5. Pawmot

    Electric and Fighting STAB hits Carracosta super effectively.

  6. Iron Hands

    Fighting and Electric STAB hits Carracosta super effectively.

Where you can use Carracosta

Carracosta is in the regional Pokédex of 2 games we cover: