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Empoleon Stats, Moves, and How to Get Fast

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Empoleon Pokemon Champions Details

Empoleon is a Water/Steel-type Pokemon that is available in Pokemon Champions. Learn how to get Empoleon fast in the mainline games, along with its stats, abilities, weaknesses and resistances, and its moves.

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How to Get Empoleon Fast

Obtain from Mainline Games

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Type Icon
Pokemon Shining Pearl Type Icon
・Obtain and Evolve the Starter Piplup
・Catch and evolve Piplup in the Grand Underground (after obtaining the National Pokedex)
▶︎ Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Details
Pokemon Legends Arceus Type Icon
・Can be caught as an alpha in Cobalt Coastlands.
・Catch and evolve a Prinplup to Level 36.
▶︎ Legends: Arceus Details
Pokemon Teal Mask Type Icon
Pokemon Indigo Disk Type Icon
・Catch and evolve Piplup in Polar Biome
・A Piplup Egg can be randomly obtained from Jacq at Reveler's Road
・Available as a Limited-time Tera Raid Event
▶︎ Scarlet and Violet Details
Pokemon GO Type Icon
・Can be caught in Pokemon GO
Pokemon HOME Type Icon
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Type Icon
Pokemon Shining Pearl Type Icon
・Get a free Piplup by depositing any Pokemon from Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl (Can only evolve by placing into a corresponding game)

Empoleon can be caught from previous titles in the series. After catching it in a game, Empoleon can be moved from the source game to Pokemon HOME, then send it to Pokemon Champions.

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Empoleon Game Data

Empoleon Type

National Dex #0395
Empoleon Empoleon
Pokemon Water Type Icon Pokemon Steel Type Icon
Generation Gen 4
Height 1.7 m
Weight 84.5 kg
Species Emperor Pokémon

Empoleon Abilities

Ability Effect
Torrent Boosts the power of the Pokémon's Water-type moves by 50% when its HP drops to 1/3 or less of its max.
Competitive
(Hidden) 		When the Pokémon has any of its stats lowered by an opponent, its Sp. Atk stat is boosted by 2 stages.

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Empoleon Weakness and Resistance

Weak to:
⦿
(2x)
Pokemon Electric Type Icon Pokemon Fighting Type Icon Pokemon Ground Type Icon
Damaged Normally By: (1x)
Pokemon Fire Type Icon Pokemon Grass Type Icon Pokemon Ghost Type Icon Pokemon Dark Type Icon
Resists: △
(0.5x)
Pokemon Normal Type Icon Pokemon Water Type Icon Pokemon Flying Type Icon Pokemon Psychic Type Icon Pokemon Bug Type Icon Pokemon Rock Type Icon Pokemon Dragon Type Icon Pokemon Fairy Type Icon
▼
(0.25x)
Pokemon Ice Type Icon Pokemon Steel Type Icon
Immune to: ×
(0x)
Pokemon Poison Type Icon

Type Chart:
Strengths and Weakness Matchups

Empoleon Stats

Stat Value
HP
84
Atk
86
Def
88
SpAtk
111
SpDef
101
Speed
60
Total
530

List of Pokemon by Base Stats


Empoleon Moves and Learnset

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Move Type Category Pow Acc PP
Aerial Ace Flying Type Moves Physical 60 20
Agility Psychic Type Moves Status 20
Air Cutter Flying Type Moves Special 60 95 20
Air Slash Flying Type Moves Special 75 95 16
Aqua Jet Water Type Moves Physical 40 100 20
Aqua Ring Water Type Moves Status 20
Attract Normal Type Moves Status 100 16
Avalanche Ice Type Moves Physical 60 100 12
Blizzard Ice Type Moves Special 110 70 8
Body Slam Normal Type Moves Physical 85 100 16
Brick Break Fighting Type Moves Physical 75 100 16
Bulldoze Ground Type Moves Physical 60 100 20
Charm Fairy Type Moves Status 100 20
Chilling Water Water Type Moves Special 50 100 20
Dig Ground Type Moves Physical 80 100 12
Dive Water Type Moves Physical 80 100 12
Double-Edge Normal Type Moves Physical 120 100 16
Drill Peck Flying Type Moves Physical 80 100 20
Dual Wingbeat Flying Type Moves Physical 40 90 12
Earthquake Ground Type Moves Physical 100 100 12
Endure Normal Type Moves Status 12
Facade Normal Type Moves Physical 70 100 20
Feather Dance Flying Type Moves Status 100 16
Flash Cannon Steel Type Moves Special 80 100 12
Fling Dark Type Moves Physical 100 12
Flip Turn Water Type Moves Physical 60 100 20
Giga Impact Normal Type Moves Physical 150 90 8
Haze Ice Type Moves Status 20
Helping Hand Normal Type Moves Status 20
Hydro Cannon Water Type Moves Special 150 90 8
Hydro Pump Water Type Moves Special 110 80 8
Hyper Beam Normal Type Moves Special 150 90 8
Ice Beam Ice Type Moves Special 90 100 12
Ice Spinner Ice Type Moves Physical 80 100 16
Icy Wind Ice Type Moves Special 55 95 16
Iron Defense Steel Type Moves Status 16
Knock Off Dark Type Moves Physical 65 100 20
Lash Out Dark Type Moves Physical 75 100 8
Liquidation Water Type Moves Physical 85 100 12
Metal Sound Steel Type Moves Status 85 20
Mud-Slap Ground Type Moves Special 20 100 12
Power Trip Dark Type Moves Physical 20 100 12
Protect Normal Type Moves Status 8
Psych Up Normal Type Moves Status 12
Rain Dance Water Type Moves Status 8
Rest Psychic Type Moves Status 8
Roar Normal Type Moves Status 20
Rock Slide Rock Type Moves Physical 75 90 12
Rock Tomb Rock Type Moves Physical 60 95 16
Roost Flying Type Moves Status 8
Round Normal Type Moves Special 60 100 16
Scary Face Normal Type Moves Status 100 12
Shadow Claw Ghost Type Moves Physical 70 100 16
Sleep Talk Normal Type Moves Status 12
Snore Normal Type Moves Special 50 100 16
Snowscape Ice Type Moves Status 8
Stealth Rock Rock Type Moves Status 20
Steel Beam Steel Type Moves Special 140 95 8
Steel Wing Steel Type Moves Physical 70 90 20
Substitute Normal Type Moves Status 12
Surf Water Type Moves Special 90 100 16
Swagger Normal Type Moves Status 85 16
Swords Dance Normal Type Moves Status 20
Throat Chop Dark Type Moves Physical 80 100 16
Triple Axel Ice Type Moves Physical 20 90 12
Uproar Normal Type Moves Special 90 100 12
Vacuum Wave Fighting Type Moves Special 40 100 20
Water Pulse Water Type Moves Special 60 100 20
Waterfall Water Type Moves Physical 80 100 16
Wave Crash Water Type Moves Physical 120 100 12
Weather Ball Normal Type Moves Special 50 100 12
Whirlpool Water Type Moves Special 35 85 16
Yawn Normal Type Moves Status 12

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