Sandslash

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#028  -  Sandslash

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Alolan

#028    Sandslash Types Ground Generation   I   Abilities Ability 1 Sand Veil Hidden Ability Sand Rush Rarity Tier   Common   Catch rate   90/255 (11.76%)   Base stats HP 75 Atk 100 Def 110 Sp.Atk 45 Sp.Def 55 Spd 65 Base-stat total: 450 EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 2 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 2 Base Experience   163   Gender Ratio     50%     50%     Height   1m   Weight   29.5kg

#28A    Alolan Sandslash Types Ice Steel Generation      Abilities Ability 1 Snow Cloak Hidden Ability Slush Rush Rarity Tier   Unhuntable   Catch rate   90/255 (11.76%)   Base stats HP 75 Atk 100 Def 120 Sp.Atk 25 Sp.Def 65 Spd 65 Base-stat total: 450 EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 2 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 2 Base Experience   163   Gender Ratio     50%     50%     Height   1.2m   Weight   55.0kg

Standard form:

Sandslash is a Ground-type Pokémon.
It evolves from Sandshrew as early as level 22, thereby reaching the final stage of its evolutionary line.

Alolan form:

Alolan Sandslash is a Ice and Steel-type Pokémon.
It evolves from Alolan Sandshrew when contractually exposed to an Ice Stone, it is the final stage of its evolutionary line.

Obtainability

Wild

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Desert Lagoon	35-40	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Dragonspiral Tower 3F	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Evergreen Waterway	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Iron Island 1F	32-36	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon B1F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 113	19-23	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 228	40-45	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 26	45-48	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 27	44-48	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 31	5-7		Day			Common
Victory Road Kanto 1F	53-57	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Victory Road Kanto 2F	53-57	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Victory Road Kanto 3F	53-57	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Diggable Patches

Region	Area	Levels	Rarity
Kanto	Route 14	26-30	Common
Kanto	Route 15	26-30	Common
Kanto	Water Path	24-29	Common

Moves

Level-up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
—	Sand Attack	Ground	Status	—	100	15
—	Defense Curl	Normal	Status	—	—	40
—	Scratch	Normal	Physical	40	100	35
3	Sand Attack	Ground	Status	—	100	15
5	Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
7	Rollout	Rock	Physical	30	90	20
9	Rapid Spin	Normal	Physical	50	100	40
11	Fury Cutter	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
14	Magnitude	Ground	Physical	—	100	30
17	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
20	Fury Swipes	Normal	Physical	18	80	15
22	Crush Claw	Normal	Physical	75	95	10
24	Sand Tomb	Ground	Physical	35	85	15
28	Slash	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
33	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
38	Gyro Ball	Steel	Physical	—	100	5
43	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
48	Sandstorm	Ground	Status	—	—	10
53	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	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
	TM08	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
	TM15	Hyper Beam	Normal	Special	150	90	5
	TM17	Submission	Fighting	Physical	80	80	25
	TM19	Seismic Toss	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
	TM26	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	100	10
	TM27	Fissure	Ground	Physical	—	30	5
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM39	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM48	Rock Slide	Rock	Physical	75	90	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM61	Sunny Day	Fire	Status	—	—	5
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM75	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
	TM81	Brick Break	Fighting	Physical	75	100	15
	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
	TM114	Rock Smash	Fighting	Physical	40	100	15
	TM115	Shadow Claw	Ghost	Physical	70	100	15
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	HM01	Cut	Normal	Physical	50	95	30
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
Aerial Ace	Flying	Physical	60	—	20
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
Iron Tail	Steel	Physical	100	75	15
Poison Jab	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
Stone Edge	Rock	Physical	100	80	5
X-Scissor	Bug	Physical	80	100	10
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
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Covet	Normal	Physical	60	100	25
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Dynamic Punch	Fighting	Physical	100	50	5
Earth Power	Ground	Special	90	100	10
Fury Cutter	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100	25
Headbutt	Normal	Physical	70	100	15
Iron Tail	Steel	Physical	100	75	15
Rock Slide	Rock	Physical	75	90	10
Rollout	Rock	Physical	30	90	20
Seismic Toss	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Stealth Rock	Rock	Status	—	—	20
Super Fang (20,000)	Normal	Physical	—	90	10
Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	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
Chip Away	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Crush Claw	Normal	Physical	75	95	10
Endure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
Metal Claw	Steel	Physical	50	95	35
Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95	15
Night Slash	Dark	Physical	70	100	15
Rapid Spin	Normal	Physical	50	100	40
Rock Climb	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
Grass Ice Water	Bug Dark Dragon Fairy Fighting Fire Flying Ghost Ground Normal Psychic Steel	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 Sandslash requires to advance per level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential
1	130	13
2	143	13
3	206	63
4	366	160
5	673	307
6	1177	504
7	1925	748
8	2967	1042
9	4351	1384
10	6127	1776
11	8344	2217
12	11050	2706
13	14295	3245
14	18126	3831
15	22594	4468
16	27747	5153
17	33635	5888
18	40305	6670
19	47807	7502
20	56190	8383
21	65503	9313
22	75795	10292
23	87115	11320
24	99511	12396
25	113033	13522
26	127730	14697
27	143651	15921
28	160844	17193
29	179359	18515
30	199245	19886
31	220550	21305
32	243325	22775
33	267617	24292
34	293476	25859
35	320951	27475
36	350091	29140
37	380945	30854
38	413563	32618
39	447993	34430
40	484285	36292
41	522487	38202
42	562650	40163
43	604823	42173
44	649054	44231
45	695394	46340
46	743891	48497
47	794596	50705
48	847558	52962
49	902826	55268
50	960451	57625
51	1020482	60031
52	1082969	62487
53	1147963	64994
54	1215515	67552
55	1285674	70159
56	1358492	72818
57	1434019	75527
58	1512308	78289
59	1593411	81103
60	1677378	83967
61	1764265	86887
62	1854124	89859
63	1947009	92885
64	2042976	95967
65	2142082	99106
66	2244385	102303
67	2349943	105558
68	2458819	108876
69	2571078	112259
70	2686785	115707
71	2806012	119227
72	2928835	122823
73	3055336	126501
74	3185604	130268
75	3319738	134134
76	3457849	138111
77	3600064	142215
78	3746531	146467
79	3897423	150892
80	4052952	155529
81	4213376	160424
82	4379017	165641
83	4550289	171272
84	4727725	177436
85	4912037	184312
86	5104182	192145
87	5305480	201298
88	5517788	212308
89	5743771	225983
90	5987352	243581
91	6254440	267088
92	6554197	299757
93	6901266	347069
94	7319890	418624
95	7851849	531959
96	8572626	720777
97	9626419	1053793
98	11307963	1681544
99	14272214	2964251
100	20138030	5865816

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

Sandslash coalesced with an assortment of other Pokémon to have a Christmas-thematized counterpart as a product of the 2016 Christmas Event.

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Sandslash
• 
  Christmas Sandslash

External Links

• Sandslash's Bulbapedia
• Sandslash's Serebii