Gyarados

Gyarados has 540 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (125) and a Speed of 81. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 274, which makes it a bulky physical attacker.

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What Gyarados is weak to

Weak to: Electric (×4), Rock. Resists: Fire, Water, Fighting, Bug, Steel. Immune to: Ground (×0). The ×4 weakness is the danger: one hit of Electric does huge damage.

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Best teammates for Gyarados

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

1. Tinkaton FairySteel

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits ice, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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2. Klefki SteelFairy

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits ice, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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3. Mawile SteelFairy

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits ice, dragon, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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4. Scizor BugSteel

   Hits ice, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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5. Escavalier BugSteel

   Hits ice, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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6. Durant BugSteel

   Hits ice, psychic, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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Counters to Gyarados

1. Iron Thorns

   Rock and Electric STAB hits Gyarados super effectively.

2. Raging Bolt

   Electric STAB hits Gyarados super effectively and it resists everything Gyarados can hit it with by type.

3. Dracozolt

   Electric STAB hits Gyarados super effectively and it resists everything Gyarados can hit it with by type.

4. Lanturn

   Electric STAB hits Gyarados super effectively and it resists everything Gyarados can hit it with by type.

5. Xurkitree

   Electric STAB hits Gyarados super effectively.

6. Archeops

   Rock STAB hits Gyarados super effectively.

Where you can use Gyarados

Gyarados is in the regional Pokédex of 10 games we cover: