Community tiers (you can vote in all four)
Classic
Rank #80 · 8 votes · median S
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Rank #46 · 13 votes · median S
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Endless
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Tier history
5 recorded changes · 8 votes
Moved A → S 7 days ago
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Game data
Abilities
- Beast Boost
Boosts the Pokémon’s most proficient stat every time it knocks out a target.
The Pokémon floats off the ground, making it immune to Ground-type moves, as well as Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Sticky Web.
Egg moves
- Strength SapGrassStatus— · 100%
The user restores its own HP by the same amount as the target’s Attack stat. It then lowers the target’s Attack stat.
- Malignant ChainPoisonSpecial100 pow · 100%
The user pours toxins into the target by wrapping them in a toxic, corrosive chain. This move has a 50% chance of badly poisoning the target.
- Earth PowerGroundSpecial90 pow · 100%
The user makes the ground under the target erupt with power. This move has a 10% chance of lowering the target’s Sp. Def stat.
- Quiver DanceBugStatus— · —Rare egg move
The user lightly performs a beautiful, mystic dance. This boosts the user’s Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, and Speed stats.
Base stats
Nihilego · BST 570
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-6 starter:
- Passive ability
- 20 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 10 / 30 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 15 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Nihilego eggs: 13 🍬 after 15 hatches, 11 🍬 after 30 hatches, 7 🍬 after 60 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 200
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Nihilego needs 200 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.