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Primal Groudon
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Primal Groudon

GroundFire

Best attacking moveset: Dragon Tail and Precipice Blades, worth 19.1 damage per second against a neutral target.

Best moveset

Primal Groudon can learn 10 combinations. Dragon Tail with Precipice Blades does the most damage per second of them, at level 40 with a perfect attack stat. Same-type moves get the 1.2× bonus, and the cycle assumes the charged attack fires the moment it has the energy.

That set is legacy. Precipice Blades is only obtainable with an Elite TM or from the event that gave it out, so the Primal Groudon you catch today cannot learn it. The best set it can learn now is Dragon Tail and Earthquake, worth 17.9 damage per second.

Stats and moves come straight from the game's own data files. Every number on this page is a raid and gym number, not a PvP one.

Type matchups

Takes double damageWater
Weak toGround
ResistsPoisonBugSteelFireFairy
Strongly resistsElectric
Fast attackTypePowerDurationEnergy
Dragon TailDragon141.0s+8
Mud ShotGround40.5s+6
Charged attackTypePowerDurationEnergy
EarthquakeGround1403.5s-100
Fire BlastFire1404.0s-100
Solar BeamGrass1805.0s-100
Fire Punch LegacyFire502.0s-33
Precipice Blades LegacyGround1201.5s-100

Shiny

Shiny availability is tracked for Groudon as a species, on the Groudon page.

Other forms

Groudon
Groudon

Numbers

Max CP6,672 at level 50, 5,902 at level 40
Raid catch3,372 CP at level 20, or 4,215 if weather boosted (perfect IVs)
Lowest possible raid catch3,261 CP. Raid encounters can't roll below 10/10/10
Base stats353 attack · 268 defense · 218 stamina

What it costs

Second charged move100,000 Stardust and 100 Candy
Buddy distance20 km per Candy
Purify a Shadow one20,000 Stardust and 20 Candy
Size3.51 m and 950 kg

Best moveset against each type

Primal Groudon does not have one best moveset, it has 5. Which one wins depends on what you are attacking, because a move only gets its bonus against something weak to it. Best against Poison, Rock, Steel.

AgainstBest movesetDPS
PoisonMud Shot + Precipice Blades30.9
RockMud Shot + Precipice Blades30.9
SteelMud Shot + Precipice Blades30.9
FireMud Shot + Precipice Blades30.9
ElectricMud Shot + Precipice Blades30.9
DragonDragon Tail + Precipice Blades25.3
IceMud Shot + Fire Blast23.1
GroundMud Shot + Solar Beam22.5
WaterMud Shot + Solar Beam22.5
BugDragon Tail + Fire Blast22.3
GrassDragon Tail + Fire Blast22.3
NormalDragon Tail + Precipice Blades19.1
FightingDragon Tail + Precipice Blades19.1
GhostDragon Tail + Precipice Blades19.1
PsychicDragon Tail + Precipice Blades19.1
DarkDragon Tail + Precipice Blades19.1
FairyMud Shot + Precipice Blades18.7
FlyingDragon Tail + Fire Blast17.3

Same maths as the headline number, run once per defending type: level 40, perfect attack IV, and the target's own type taken into account. Sorted by damage, so the top of this table is what Primal Groudon is actually for.

Counters: what beats Primal Groudon

AttackerTypeMovesetDPS
InteleonWaterWater Gun + Hydro Cannon Legacy30.1
KyogreWaterWaterfall + Origin Pulse Legacy30.0
KinglerWaterBubble + Crabhammer28.4
GreninjaWaterDarkWater Shuriken + Hydro Cannon Legacy28.3
QuaquavalWaterFightingWater Gun + Hydro Cannon Legacy27.2
PrimarinaWaterFairyWaterfall + Hydro Cannon Legacy26.8
SharpedoWaterDarkWaterfall + Hydro Pump25.2
CrawdauntWaterDarkWaterfall + Crabhammer25.2
VolcanionFireWaterWater Gun + Hydro Pump25.2
ClawitzerWaterWater Gun + Crabhammer24.7

Ranked by damage per second against Primal Groudon's own defense, at level 40 with a 15 attack IV, one per evolution family.