#0408 · Generation 4

Cranidos

Rock

Cranidos has 350 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (125) and a Speed of 58. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 137, which makes it a balanced physical attacker.

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What Cranidos is weak to

Weak to: Water, Grass, Fighting, Ground, Steel. Resists: Normal, Fire, Poison, Flying. Immune to: none.

Attacking typeDamage taken
Water×2
Grass×2
Fighting×2
Ground×2
Steel×2
Normal×0.5
Fire×0.5
Poison×0.5
Flying×0.5

Base stats

HP67
Atk125
Def40
SpA30
SpD30
Spe58
Total350

Best teammates for Cranidos

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Cranidos: 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, rock, dragon 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, rock, dragon 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, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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  4. Scizor BugSteel

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

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  5. Escavalier BugSteel

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

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  6. Durant BugSteel

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

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Counters to Cranidos

  1. Kartana

    Grass and Steel STAB hits Cranidos super effectively and it resists everything Cranidos can hit it with by type.

  2. Excadrill

    Ground and Steel STAB hits Cranidos super effectively and it resists everything Cranidos can hit it with by type.

  3. Great Tusk

    Ground and Fighting STAB hits Cranidos super effectively and it resists everything Cranidos can hit it with by type.

  4. Breloom

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

  5. Iron Treads

    Ground and Steel STAB hits Cranidos super effectively and it resists everything Cranidos can hit it with by type.

  6. Quaquaval

    Water and Fighting STAB hits Cranidos super effectively and it resists everything Cranidos can hit it with by type.

Where you can use Cranidos

Cranidos is in the regional Pokédex of 1 game we cover:

Platinum