How to Raise a Perfect Garchomp

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Hoping to add a perfect Garchomp to your team? You've got good taste—a Garchomp is a very strong and cool pseudo-legendary Pokémon that can be practically invincible when trained well. We've outlined everything you need to know, so you can add this crazy-strong Pokémon to your roster in Pokémon Diamond , Pokémon Pearl , or Pokémon Platinum .

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Catch a Gible with a good nature.

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    You can either keep on catching Gible until you get one or you can breed until you get one. Giving the Gible parent an Everstone to hold will probably increase the chances of getting a good nature. These natures are the ones that you'll want because they don't lower any of Garchomp's perfect stats.
    • Jolly might be the best, because then Salamence, Pikachu, and Celebi will not be faster than your Garchomp, and you can outrun faster Pokémon such as Gengar.
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Fight Pokémon that give Attack and Speed EVs.

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    You can use Protein and Carbos for the first 100 EVs in each stat if you have enough money.
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Level it up to 24 and teach it powerful moves.

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    If you do not mind extra training, then breed for a Gible egg. Its stats (could) be higher and it can learn powerful egg moves like Thrash. Placing it in the day-care will require a lot of walking, but allows higher EV training.
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Evolve your Gible to a Gabite.

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Train your Gabite in Attack and Speed.

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    This will raise Gabite/Garchomp's total ability.
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Raise your Gabite to Level 48.

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    You can do this as your Pokémon levels up, or by teaching it TMs.
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Evolve your Gabite at level 48 or 49.

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    At level 49, the Gabite can learn Dragon Rush, a highly powerful but slightly inaccurate move. Evolving it at level 48 will give a marginal amount of extra Attack. Evolving it at level 49 lets you learn Dragon Rush earlier. It's your choice.
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Teach your Garchomp powerful moves.

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    Consider teaching it moves like Earthquake, Stone Edge, Rockslide, Dragon Claw, Dragon Rush, Dual Chop, Outrage, Dragonbreath, Dragon Pulse, or Draco Meteor. Some other potentially good moves are:
    • Fire Fang
    • Crunch
    • Dragon Dance
    • Substitute
    • Protect
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Give a useful item to your Garchomp.

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Battle competitively with this Garchomp.

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    If you use Garchomp on the same team as a Tyranitar, Garchomp will get a 20% chance to avoid getting hit. Just remember to have other Pokémon that can take in Water, Grass, Ice, Fighting, and Fairy attacks.
    • Another good idea if you want to do this is to give it a Yache Berry to hold. This will let your Garchomp survive most Ice type attacks.

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    Why should I give it attack and speed?
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    Giving it greater attack and speed abilities will mean it can do more damage to other Pokemon during battles.
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    Should my Garchomp learn all Dragon type moves or all Ground type moves? Or two of each or different types of moves?
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    It is a good moveset, but I don't recommend it, as you can't boost your Attack for Dragon Rush, and you won't get physical coverage for Clefable. It can hit Chansey/Blissey super effectively, but it doesn't matter due to their low physical defenses.
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      • If you can, make sure you can back up Garchomp with plenty of Full Restores and Revives, as you have to expect the worst to happen all the time.
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      • Its final moveset should be something like Earthquake, Dragon Claw, Stone Edge and Fire Fang. This is not the only moveset you should use; feel free to tweak it to your liking.
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      • Sandstorm activates its Sand Veil ability so it is less likely to be hit, and all his other attacks have at least 100 power.
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      Warnings

      • Sometimes Garchomp may be KOed (fainted easily) if you don't take care of its HP or if it fights an Ice type (4x weakness) or Fairy type (2x weakness).
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      • Avoid teaching it two attacking moves of the same type.
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      • Avoid teaching it special attacks like Surf. It wastes the high Attack stat.
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      Things You'll Need

      • A Gible
      • Good TMs
      • Battle items such as a Choice Scarf or Choice Band (optional)

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