Politoed

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#186  -  Politoed

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#186	Politoed
Types Water	Generation   II
Abilities Ability 1 Water Absorb Ability 2 Damp Hidden Ability Drizzle
Rarity Tier   Uncommon	Catch rate   45/255 (5.88%)
Base stats HP 90 Atk 75 Def 75 Sp.Atk 90 Sp.Def 100 Spd 70 Base-stat total: 500
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 3 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 3
Base Experience   185	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   1.1m	Weight   33.9kg

Politoed is a Water-type Pokémon.

Having evolved from Poliwhirl when traded with a King's Rock, it is one of the final evolutionary stages of Poliwag in its bievolutionary line; the other one is Poliwrath, which also evolves from Poliwhirl when contactually exposed to a Water Stone.

Obtainability

Surfing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Amazon Forest	35-40	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Fuchsia City	20-20	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Ice Island Seaway	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Ice Island Seaway Frozen	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Route 120	35-40	Morning					Rare
Route 204	3-13	Morning	Day	Night			Rare
Route 28	33-37	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone	22-26	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Sleeping Path	42-45	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
All rows with a fishing rod indicate that its corresponding Pokémon can also be fished with the rod tier shown Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Moves

Level-up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Perish Song	Normal	Status	—	—	5
—	Double Slap	Normal	Physical	15	85	10
—	Hypnosis	Psychic	Status	—	60	20
—	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
27	Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	15
37	Bounce	Flying	Physical	85	85	5
48	Hyper Voice	Normal	Special	90	100	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
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
	TM15	Hyper Beam	Normal	Special	150	90	5
	TM26	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	100	10
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM29	Psychic	Psychic	Special	90	100	10
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM57	Hail	Ice	Status	—	—	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM68	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—	5
	TM81	Brick Break	Fighting	Physical	75	100	15
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM105	Scald	Water	Special	80	100	15
	TM114	Rock Smash	Fighting	Physical	40	100	15
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	HM03	Surf	Water	Special	90	100	15
	HM06	Dive	Water	Physical	80	100	10
	HM07	Waterfall	Water	Physical	80	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
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
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
Bounce	Flying	Physical	85	85	5
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Dynamic Punch	Fighting	Physical	100	50	5
Endeavor	Normal	Physical	—	100	5
Headbutt	Normal	Physical	70	100	15
Hyper Voice	Normal	Special	90	100	10
Ice Punch	Ice	Physical	75	100	15
Icy Wind	Ice	Special	55	95	15
Mega Kick	Normal	Physical	120	75	5
Mega Punch	Normal	Physical	80	85	20
Seismic Toss	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	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
Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
Encore	Normal	Status	—	100	5
Endeavor	Normal	Physical	—	100	5
Endure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Haze	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Ice Ball	Ice	Physical	30	90	20
Mind Reader	Normal	Status	—	—	5
Mist	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95	15
Refresh	Normal	Status	—	—	20
Splash	Normal	Status	—	—	40
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
Water Sport	Water	Status	—	—	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. For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Move Inheritors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	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.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2×  Weak to	1×  Neutral to	½×  Resistant to	0×  Immune to
Electric Grass	Bug Dark Dragon Fairy Fighting Flying Ghost Ground Normal Poison Psychic Rock	Fire Ice Steel Water	None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Politoed requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this is informative for ascertaining how much experience can be saved if you were to delay its evolution to a later level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential
1	148	15
2	163	15
3	233	70
4	415	182
5	764	349
6	1336	572
7	2185	849
8	3367	1182
9	4939	1572
10	6955	2016
11	9470	2515
12	12542	3072
13	16224	3682
14	20573	4349
15	25644	5071
16	31492	5848
17	38174	6682
18	45745	7571
19	54260	8515
20	63774	9514
21	74344	10570
22	86025	11681
23	98873	12848
24	112942	14069
25	128289	15347
26	144970	16681
27	163039	18069
28	182553	19514
29	203567	21014
30	226137	22570
31	250318	24181
32	276166	25848
33	303737	27571
34	333086	29349
35	364269	31183
36	397343	33074
37	432361	35018
38	469381	37020
39	508458	39077
40	549648	41190
41	593007	43359
42	638591	45584
43	686455	47864
44	736657	50202
45	789251	52594
46	844294	55043
47	901842	57548
48	961952	60110
49	1024680	62728
50	1090082	65402
51	1158215	68133
52	1229137	70922
53	1302903	73766
54	1379572	76669
55	1459201	79629
56	1541847	82646
57	1627568	85721
58	1716424	88856
59	1808472	92048
60	1903773	95301
61	2002387	98614
62	2104373	101986
63	2209795	105422
64	2318716	108921
65	2431198	112482
66	2547308	116110
67	2667114	119806
68	2790685	123571
69	2918094	127409
70	3049418	131324
71	3184738	135320
72	3324138	139400
73	3467713	143575
74	3615563	147850
75	3767801	152238
76	3924553	156752
77	4085962	161409
78	4252197	166235
79	4423456	171259
80	4599977	176521
81	4782053	182076
82	4970051	187998
83	5164438	194387
84	5365823	201385
85	5575012	209189
86	5793090	218078
87	6021557	228467
88	6262520	240963
89	6519004	256484
90	6795461	276457
91	7098598	303137
92	7438813	340215
93	7832726	393913
94	8307851	475125
95	8911608	603757
96	9729668	818060
97	10925690	1196022
98	12834191	1908501
99	16198526	3364335
100	22856047	6657521

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Politoed
• 
  Pink Politoed

External Links

• Politoed's Bulbapedia
• Politoed's Serebii