Nidoking

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#034	Nidoking
Types 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

There is no way to originatively obtain Nidoking. The only methods of obtaining one are by evolving Nidorino via a Moon Stone or by trading for one.

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
	TM01	Mega Punch	Normal	Physical	80	85	20
	TM05	Mega Kick	Normal	Physical	120	75	5
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM08	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
File:TM-.png	TM00	[[]]			—
	TM12	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	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
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
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 (7,000)	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-Inheritable 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