Nidoking

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#034    Nidoking

Type(s)

Poison Ground

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Poison Point		 Ability 2
Rivalry		 Hidden Ability
Sheer Force

Rarity Tier

  Uncommon  

Catch rate

  45/255 (5.88%)  

Base stats

HP
81

Atk
92

Def
77

Sp.Atk
85

Sp.Def
75

Spd
85

Base-stat total: 495
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
3

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 3

Base Experience

  195  

Gender Ratio

    100%    

Height

  1.4m  

Weight

  62kg  

Nidoking is a Poison— and Ground-type Pokémon.

Having evolved from Nidorino when contactually exposed to a Moon Stone, Nidoking is the final stage of Nidoran Male‘s evolutionary line.

Its evolutionary line is the feminine gender counterpart of Nidoqueen‘s.

Obtainability

Wild

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Route 120 25-30 Day Uncommon
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
— Poison Sting Poison Physical 15 100 35
— Double Kick Fighting Physical 30 100 30
— Focus Energy Normal Status — — 30
— Peck Flying Physical 35 100 35
— Megahorn Bug Physical 120 85 10
23 Chip Away Normal Physical 70 100 20
35 Thrash Normal Physical 120 100 10
43 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 10
58 Megahorn Bug Physical 120 85 10
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM1 Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
TM5 Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM9 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
TM11 Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100 20
TM12 Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
TM13 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 10
TM14 Blizzard Ice Special 110 70 5
TM15 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90 5
TM16 Pay Day Normal Physical 40 100 20
TM17 Submission Fighting Physical 80 80 25
TM19 Seismic Toss Fighting Physical — 100 20
TM24 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 15
TM25 Thunder Electric Special 110 70 10
TM26 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 10
TM27 Fissure Ground Physical — 30 5
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM33 Reflect Psychic Status — — 20
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM38 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 5
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM48 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
TM55 Roar Normal Status — — 20
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status — — 5
TM62 Taunt Dark Status — 100 20
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM68 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
TM80 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 15
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 15
TM86 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 10
TM87 Sandstorm Ground Status — — 10
TM89 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM115 Shadow Claw Ghost Physical 70 100 15
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
HM01 Cut Normal Physical 50 95 30
HM03 Surf Water Special 90 100 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Avalanche Ice Physical 60 100 10
Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100 20
Dragon Tail Dragon Physical 60 90 10
Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70 5
Focus Punch Fighting Physical 150 100 20
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90 5
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100 20
Sludge Wave Poison Special 95 100 10
Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80 5
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 10
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100 10
Drill Run Ground Physical 80 95 10
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 10
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 15
Fury Cutter Bug Physical 40 95 20
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 15
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
Outrage Dragon Physical 120 100 10
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
Seismic Toss Fighting Physical — 100 20
Shock Wave Electric Special 60 — 20
Stealth Rock Rock Status — — 20
Sucker Punch Dark Physical 80 100 5
Super Fang Normal Physical — 90 10
Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100 5
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 15
Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Amnesia Psychic Status — — 20
Beat Up Dark Physical — 100 10
Chip Away Normal Physical 70 100 20
Confusion Psychic Special 50 100 25
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Disable Normal Status — 100 20
Endure Normal Status — — 10
Head Smash Rock Physical 150 80 5
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Poison Tail Poison Physical 50 100 25
Sucker Punch Dark Physical 80 100 5
Supersonic Normal Status — 55 20
Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Ground
Ice
Psychic
Water
Dark
Dragon
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Grass
Normal
Steel
Bug
Fairy
Fighting
Poison
Rock
Electric
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience that Nidoking requires to advance per level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential
1 156 16
2 171 15
3 246 75
4 438 192
5 806 368
6 1408 602
7 2303 895
8 3549 1246
9 5206 1657
10 7331 2125
11 9982 2651
12 13220 3238
13 17101 3881
14 21685 4584
15 27030 5345
16 33195 6165
17 40238 7043
18 48217 7979
19 57192 8975
20 67221 10029
21 78363 11142
22 90675 12312
23 104217 13542
24 119047 14830
25 135224 16177
26 152806 17582
27 171852 19046
28 192421 20569
29 214571 22150
30 238361 23790
31 263849 25488
32 291094 27245
33 320155 29061
34 351091 30936
35 383960 32869
36 418821 34861
37 455732 36911
38 494753 39021
39 535942 41189
40 579359 43417
41 625062 45703
42 673109 48047
43 723561 50452
44 776476 52915
45 831913 55437
46 889931 58018
47 950590 60659
48 1013949 63359
49 1080068 66119
50 1149005 68937
51 1220822 71817
52 1295577 74755
53 1373331 77754
54 1454144 80813
55 1538076 83932
56 1625190 87114
57 1715545 90355
58 1809203 93658
59 1906227 97024
60 2006680 100453
61 2110624 103944
62 2218123 107499
63 2329244 111121
64 2444052 114808
65 2562614 118562
66 2685000 122386
67 2811282 126282
68 2941533 130251
69 3075829 134296
70 3214252 138423
71 3356886 142634
72 3503821 146935
73 3655157 151336
74 3810999 155842
75 3971466 160467
76 4136691 165225
77 4306825 170134
78 4482046 175221
79 4662562 180516
80 4848624 186062
81 5040542 191918
82 5238702 198160
83 5443597 204895
84 5655868 212271
85 5876364 220496
86 6106230 229866
87 6347047 240817
88 6601035 253988
89 6871383 270348
90 7162783 291400
91 7482306 319523
92 7840911 358605
93 8256116 415205
94 8756924 500808
95 9393317 636393
96 10255596 862279
97 11516268 1260672
98 13527931 2011663
99 17074122 3546191
100 24091509 7017387

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Nidoking

  • Pink Nidoking

External Links

  • Nidoking’s Bulbapedia
  • Nidoking’s Serebii