#0140 · Generation 1

Kabuto

RockWater

Kabuto has 355 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (80) and a Speed of 55. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 165, which makes it a physical tank.

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What Kabuto 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

HP30
Atk80
Def90
SpA55
SpD45
Spe55
Total355

Best teammates for Kabuto

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Kabuto: 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 Kabuto

  1. Breloom

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

  2. Chesnaught

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

  3. Great Tusk

    Ground and Fighting STAB hits Kabuto super effectively.

  4. Sandy Shocks

    Electric and Ground STAB hits Kabuto super effectively.

  5. Pawmot

    Electric and Fighting STAB hits Kabuto super effectively.

  6. Iron Hands

    Fighting and Electric STAB hits Kabuto super effectively.

Where you can use Kabuto

Kabuto is in the regional Pokédex of 3 games we cover:

FireRedLeafGreenHeartGold and SoulSilver