Pokédex · IV (Sinnoh)

Mega Garchomp#10058

Strong point: Attack — among the highest in the entire Pokédex. Overall it is one of the stronger species — above 100% of the Pokédex. On defense it has 3 weaknesses, 3 resistances and 1 full immunity. Watch out for the Ice type — damage from it is quadrupled.

Mega Garchomp
Shiny version
Dragon Ground
Height: 1.9 m (6′03″) Weight: 95.0 kg (209.4 lbs)

Base stats

HP
108
93%
Atk
170
100%
Def
115
90%
SpA
120
92%
SpD
95
82%
Spe
92
78%
TOTAL
700
100%

Last column: what percentage of 1084 species and regional forms have a lower value. Strong point: Attack.

A nature can improve this entry further: its boost hits hardest on Attack, the stat in which this species already leads. Which nature does that — see the list of natures.

Mega Evolution adds a fixed pool of one hundred points and replaces the ability with a single one.

Which nature to choose

It hits physically: its Attack (170) is 50 points higher than its Sp. Atk. So the drop hits a stat the set usually does not use at all.

  • Jolly +Spe · −SpA Its Speed is higher than 78% of species — ten percent more lifts it past some of the benchmarks that decide who moves first.
  • Adamant +Atk · −SpA If you already outspeed what you want to outspeed, those ten percent are better spent on hitting power.
  • Hidden Power and Weather Ball still deal damage based on Sp. Atk. If either of them is going into the set, lowering Sp. Atk is no longer free.

A conclusion drawn from base stats alone — a specific moveset can reverse it. All 25 natures.

Abilities

  • Sand Force Strengthens rock, ground, and steel moves to 1.3× their power during a sandstorm. Protects against sandstorm damage.

Pokédex entry

When it folds up its body and extends its wings, it looks like a jet plane. It flies at sonic speed.

Egg Group: Monster Egg Group: Dragon Gender: 50% ♂ / 50% ♀ Catch difficulty: hard (45/255) Base friendship: 70/255 Base EXP: 315

Resistances and weaknesses

Type chart →

How much damage Mega Garchomp takes when it is hit by a move of each type. The multipliers of both its types are already combined here.

Weak to Ice ×4 Dragon ×2 Fairy ×2
Resistant to Fire ×½ Poison ×½ Rock ×½
Immune to Electric ×0

Variant gallery

The gallery shows only the appearance variants that exist for this Pokémon. Every image shows the same character and differs in source — a Pokémon HOME render or a pixel sprite — and in coloring, regular or shiny.

Mega Garchomp — large render in its regular coloring
Pokémon HOME
Mega Garchomp — large render in its shiny coloring
Pokémon HOME shiny
Mega Garchomp — small pixel sprite in its regular coloring
Pixel sprite
Mega Garchomp — small pixel sprite in its shiny coloring
Shiny pixel sprite

Offspring can come from 131 species from the same Egg Groups (with opposite genders) or from Ditto. Below are the first 12 by Pokédex number.

Below are the moves learned by leveling up. The rest (45 via TM/TR, 12 via tutor) are on the full list.

Lv. Move Type Cat. Power Acc. PP
1 Dragon Rage Dragon Special — 100% 10
1 Dual Chop Dragon Physical 40 90% 15
1 Fire Fang Fire Physical 65 95% 15
1 Sand Attack Ground Status — 100% 15
1 Sandstorm Rock Status — — 10
1 Tackle Normal Physical 40 100% 35
15 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85% 20
19 Sand Tomb Ground Physical 35 85% 15
28 Slash Normal Physical 70 100% 20
33 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical 80 100% 15
40 Dig Ground Physical 80 100% 10
48 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100% 15
55 Dragon Rush Dragon Physical 100 75% 10