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This is a guide to movesets and best builds for using Garganacl in competitive play for the games Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV). Read on for tips on the best Nature, EV spreads, Movesets, Tera Type, and Held Items to use with Garganacl, as well as its strengths and weakness.
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Paldea #131 | Type | |
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Garganacl | ||
Abilities | ||
Purifying Salt Sturdy Clear Body (Hidden) |
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Weak to: | ||
(2x) | ||
Damaged Normally By: |
(1x) | |
Resists: | (0.5x) | |
Ability Name | Description | |
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Purifying Salt | The Pokemon is protected from being inflicted with status conditions and halves the damage taken from Ghost-type moves. | |
Sturdy | The user cannot be knocked out with one hit and cannot be knocked out by One hit KO moves, causing the Pokemon to have 1 HP remaining. | |
Clear Body (Hidden) |
Prevents other Pokemon from lowering the user's stats. |
Stat | Value | Rank |
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HP | 100 | 82 |
Atk | 100 | 201 |
Def | 130 | 25 |
SpAtk | 45 | 635 |
SpDef | 90 | 176 |
Speed | 35 | 716 |
Total | 500 | 271 |
Stat | Max | 0Nat | 0EV | -Nat | Min |
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HP | 207 | 207 | 175 | 175 | 160 |
Atk | 167 | 152 | 120 | 108 | 94 |
Def | 200 | 182 | 150 | 135 | 121 |
SpAtk | 106 | 97 | 65 | 58 | 45 |
SpDef | 156 | 142 | 110 | 99 | 85 |
Spd | 95 | 87 | 55 | 49 | 36 |
Best Natures | ||
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Relaxed (+Def, -Spe) |
Careful (+Sp. Def, -Sp. Atk) |
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Sassy (+Sp. Def, -Spe) |
Build Name | Recommendation |
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Late-Game Tank | ★★★★★ |
Nature | Sassy (+Sp. Def, -Spe) |
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EV Spread | 244 HP / 12 Def / 252 Sp. Def |
IVs | 0 Spe |
Final Stat Values | 206 HP / 120 Atk / 167 Def / 142 Sp. Def / 36 Spe |
Ability | Purifying Salt |
Tera Type | |
Held Item | Leftovers |
Moveset | ・
Salt Cure
・ Body Press ・ Iron Defense ・ Recover |
Purifying Salt is a powerful Ability for a Tank to have, letting Garganacl be immune to Status Conditions. It is also the premiere Pokemon for using the Iron Defense + Body Press combo, thanks to its enormous Physical bulk.
Access to Recover gives it even more staying power, and Salt Cure allows it to outlast most Pokemon.
Iron Head | Iron Head gives Garganacl an out against Pokemon like Flutter Mane |
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Build Name | Recommendation |
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Late-Game Tank | ★★★★★ |
Nature | Sassy (+Sp. Def, -Spe) |
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EV Spread | 252 HP / 60 Def / 196 Sp. Def |
Final Stat Values | 207 HP / 120 Atk / 158 Def / 148 Sp. Def / 55 Spe |
Ability | Purifying Salt |
Tera Type | |
Held Item | Covert Cloak |
Moveset | ・
Salt Cure
・ Wide Guard ・ Protect ・ Recover |
Extremely difficult to KO. Can outlast most Pokemon with its defensive toolkit. Its four main moves are all effective and useful. |
Purifying Salt is Garganacl's best Ability which protects it from status conditions; a useful Ability for a defensive Pokemon to have.
Having Covert Cloak as its Held Item helps Garganacl win the mirror match against other Garganacl, as Covert Cloak can block Salt Cure's incremental damage.
Salt Cure is Garganacl's main attacking move, which deals incremental damage to opposing Pokemon, with boosted damage dealt to Water and Steel-type Pokemon.
Recover allows Garganacl to heal back precious HP, allowing it to effectively outlast opponents.
Wide Guard is a powerful move which can protect Garganacl and its team from common spread moves like Earthquake and Make it Rain
Protect is good for turns where Garganacl is in danger of getting double targeted.
This build makes use of Tera Ghost to give it an immunity to Fighting-type Attacks, most notably Iron Hands' Drain Punch
252 HP with 60 Defense lets Garganacl take two 300 Base Power Rage Fists from Annihilape after Leftovers recovery. With this much bulk, Garganacl was sure to take anything else that wasn't boosted and super-effective. 196 is given to Special Defense to round out Garganacl's bulk, letting it take super-effective Special damage very well.
Damage Received by Garganacl |
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Rage Fist (300 BP) 84 ~ 99 (40.5 ~ 47.8%) Item:
Leftovers
Guaranteed 3-hit KO After Leftovers Recovery |
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Rage Fist (300 BP) 168 ~ 198 (81.1 ~ 95.6%) Item:
Leftovers
Guaranteed 2-hit KO After Leftovers Recovery |
Setting up multiple Iron Defenses can allow for Body Press to deal huge damage. This is great for neutral and super-effective hits, and for cleaning up late-game.
When all your opponent's Special Attackers are disposed of, Garganacl can come in and be a powerhouse of a tank, shrugging off all physical damage, setting up, and going for knock outs. Alternatively, using Salt Cure and outlasting opponents is also a powerful strategy.
Pokemon who can handily dispose of Special Attackers (Notably Water-types and Grass-types) are great teammates for Garganacl.
Garganacl ideally wants to come in late-game after a teammate has been knocked out, so that it does not take any damage going into the field. However it is not a bad option to switch Garganacl into a Physical Move due to its impressive Physical bulk.
Water-types will find it difficult to deal damage on Gholdengo, while a Tera Fire Garchomp can make quick work of Grass-types.
Physical Attacker | Special Attacker | Late-Game Tank |
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Garchomp | Gholdengo | Garganacl |
Garchomp and Gholdengo are great for clearing out as many as your opponent's Pokemon as possible, leaving Garganacl with fewer obstacles to secure you a win.
Special Attacker | Physical Attacker |
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Iron Bundle | Iron Hands |
Win Con | Support / Redirection |
Garganacl | Amoonguss |
Iron Bundle makes for a great partner for Iron Hands, being a very capable offensive front end for your team
Garganacl will serve as a consistent win condition after Iron Bundle and Iron Hands have done extensive damage to the opposing team.
Amoonguss can help Garganacl last even longer by redirecting attacks away from it with Rage Powder, and by putting opponents to sleep with Spore.
Use Special Attacks to shred Garganacl's HP. Even with lots of Special Defense investment, Garganacl still does not appreciate taking Special Attacks point blank. The Garganacl player's job is to knock out their opponent's Special Attackers, while the opposing player has to keep them alive to deal with Garganacl.
Pokemon | Description |
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Garganacl | Ranking: ★★★★★
・A Garganacl with Covert Cloak will always win a mirror match. ▶️Garganacl Best Movesets |
Gholdengo | Ranking: ★★★★
・Can force Garganacl to Tera with Make it Rain ・is immune to Body Press but will take more damage from Salt Cure. ▶️Gholdengo Best Movesets |
Sylveon | Ranking: ★★★★
・Can trade damage favorably if it uses Hyper Voice unless Garganacl has Tera Poison. ・Resists Garganacl's Body Press ▶️Sylveon Best Movesets |
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I find that Ghost Tera Type Garganacl with Purifying Salt and a Clear Amulet is a very difficult wall to break as once terastalized you are only weak to Dark, which at best are hitting with Dark Pulses or Crunch since 80 is pretty much the best power you can get out of a Dark Move this gen. But since you get Body Press and Hammer Arm for Fighting coverage, you will easily take out any Dark Types tha come your way.