Gholdengo

How to use Gholdengo in Champions

Gholdengo fills a special attacker niche on Champions ranked teams. With a 66-stat-point budget (max 32 per stat), most builds pour 32 into Sp. Attack and HP, then fine-tune Speed in steps of 2 to sit just above or below the metagame's common numbers.

Defensively it is hurt hardest by Fire, Ground, Ghost, Dark, while resisting Grass, Ice, Flying, Psychic. Check the Steel page for the full matchup math behind those numbers.

Movepool highlights

Gholdengo can learn 37 moves in Champions. Coverage by type: dark electric fairy fighting ghost normal psychic rock steel water. Pick four that patch your team's coverage gaps — the team builder flags what's missing automatically.

Full move list

Move	Type	Class	Power	Acc
Charge Beam	electric	Special	50	90
Confuse Ray	ghost	Status	—	100
Dazzling Gleam	fairy	Special	80	100
Endure	normal	Status	—	101
Flash Cannon	steel	Special	80	100
Focus Blast	fighting	Special	120	70
Focus Punch	fighting	Physical	150	100
Giga Impact	normal	Physical	150	90
Hex	ghost	Special	65	100
Hyper Beam	normal	Special	150	90
Iron Head	steel	Physical	80	100
Light Screen	psychic	Status	—	101
Low Sweep	fighting	Physical	65	100
Make It Rain	steel	Special	120	95
Memento	dark	Status	—	100
Metal Sound	steel	Status	—	85
Nasty Plot	dark	Status	—	101
Poltergeist	ghost	Physical	110	90
Power Gem	rock	Special	80	100
Protect	normal	Status	—	101
Psychic	psychic	Special	90	100
Psyshock	psychic	Special	80	100
Recover	normal	Status	—	101
Reflect	psychic	Status	—	101
Rest	psychic	Status	—	101
Sandstorm	rock	Status	—	101
Shadow Ball	ghost	Special	80	100
Shadow Punch	ghost	Physical	60	101
Sleep Talk	normal	Status	—	101
Steel Beam	steel	Special	140	95
Substitute	normal	Status	—	101
Surf	water	Special	90	100
Thief	dark	Physical	60	100
Thunder	electric	Special	110	70
Thunder Punch	electric	Physical	75	100
Thunderbolt	electric	Special	90	100
Trick	psychic	Status	—	100

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