Common defenders, rhydon

Next out is rhydon.

Rhydon is yet another pokemon with a huge max CP.

It hasn't seen any major changes to its moves, and you still have your pick between Mud Slap and Rock Smash as primary attacks. Both are slow attacks doing a lot of damage, but Mud Slap gains the benefit of STAB on top of charging up the special move a little faster.

For charge attacks we have Earthquake, Megahorn and Stone Edge, with Earthquake being the by far slowest. Megahorn lacks STAB, which makes this yet another no-brainer.

Your rhydon should have Mud Slap and Stone Edge.


Rhydon comes with a bulk between the 150 gang and vaporeon and lapras at 200. As such rhydon looks like a decent defender with good bulk and high CP. Problem being double weakness against water.

It's basically impossible to avoid players who have a high CP vaporeon with Hydro Pump at hand.

So we end up with yet another glass cannon unsuitable for gym defence. Once again a candidate for a remote gym.