Monday, March 16, 2015

Pokemon of the Week: Toxicroak!

   The new Pokemon of the Week is...Toxicroak! Toxicroak is a Poison/Fighting Type with the Abilities Anticipation and Dry Skin and the Hidden Ability Poison Touch. You can catch it in a Poison Type Friend Safari in X and Y, but you can't catch it in ORAS. But you can catch it's previous form, Croagunk.
   In X and Y, Croagunk can be caught in Route 7. He can't be caught in ORAS. To turn Croagunk into Toxicroak all you need to do is get it to level 37.
                Croagunk                                                                                        Toxicroak
Croagunk                                      Toxicroak
   The best Ability for Toxicroak would have to be Poison Touch. Yes, I know it's hard to get Hidden Abilities, but it's worth it. What Poison Touch does is when your Pokemon with this Ability makes contact with another Pokemon, it has a 30% chance of being poisoned.
   The best moveset I could come up with for Toxicroak is Poison Jab, Brick Break,  Sludge Bomb, and Sludge Wave. Poison Jab is on the list because it is a powerful Physical Move that Toxicroak will get a STAB from. Brick Break is for the same reason. Sludge Bomb is another good STAB move for Toxicroak, since it's Special Attack stat isn't too terribly shabby. Sludge Wave is a very good move for it, but you'll have to teach it to Toxicroak via TM. 
   A good item for Toxicroak to hold would be Black Sludge. It restores the HP of Toxicroak 1/16 of the max HP at the end of each turn. And if a Pokemon steals it from you in battle, they'll take damage at the end of each turn (if they're not a Poison Type).
   So that's how I'd use Toxicroak! Be sure to leave alternate ways to use Toxicroak or a suggestion for next week's Pokemon of the Week in the comments!

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