Competitive 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon players, as we know, sure can be picky about stats. Factors like favorites or the most adorable or interesting Pokémon simply go by the wayside, as players ruthlessly choose only the best and most effi♔cient choices for their♒ teams.
This makes perfect sense, after all. Your favorite Pokémon may be Stunfisk (not that anybody actually likes Stunfisk, but just for the sake of argument), but it’s not going to serve you very well in a Pokémon ba🌞ttle, is it? I✃t’🐬s all about having the highest stats. Today, we’re looking at the 15 Pokémon with the highest base physical defense in the series.
Updated by Chris Littlechild, March 30, 2020: There's one important thing to keep in mind before we get started, though: regardless of what you may think, stats aren't everything. As you're about to see, Pokémon with inflated stats are sometimes overcompensating for something. All of these Pokemon can talk the talk, but can they walk the walk? The hardiest defenses in the world are useless if you have horrible weaknesses or too few useful moves to go with them! Still, this list includes Mega Evolutions and even a super-secret special form (watch out, there’s a big 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Sword and Shield spoiler later in this article), so it's is going to be a wild ride!
15 ♛ Toxapex- 152
Like its fellow Water- and Poison-type, Tentacruel, Toxapex is pretty darn accomplished at two things: spreading the poison status all over the darn pꦯlace and tanking hits like nobody’s business. Where𒆙 Tentacruel is more of special sponge, though, Toxapex is geared more towards physically defensive.
Its sig🃏nature move, Baneful Bunker, complements its physically defensive leanings: if it’s targeted by a contact move that turn, the attacker will b🅷e poisoned. This gives Toxapex some offensive utility too, as its Merciless Ability means that all of its attacks will be critical hits on a poisoned target.
14 🐈 ꦍ Deoxys (Defense Forme): 160
That’s right, friends. Where 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deoxys Attack Forme has absurd power but absolutely zero in the way of defenses, its Defense Forme is the exact opposite. A few𓄧 Pokémon share an impressive base 160 Defense, and this odd, otherworldly soul is the first we’ll tak🃏e a look at.
Deoxys’ defenses are equally impressive in this form, but it doesn’t have much use for them. Throwing out Spik🍌es and wearing down opponents with Toxic will only get you so far, and it’s just too passive to do much more than that.
13 Onix: 160
It’s not an easy life, being a defensively inclined Rock Po♉kémon. You desperately want to get out there and absorb damage like an invincible champion. You want to play your tanking/walling role and 🍌contribute to your team’s victory. You want to, but then you remember that you’re weak to absolutely everything.
Generally speaking, Rock-types are slower than frozen molasses but quite powerful and tanky. Sadly for Onix, it has a meager 45 base Attack and everything else is 🔜very sub-par. Our final Pokémon in the 160 club could never be accused of lacking in power, though.
12 Primal Groudon- ಌ160 ꦗ
Now we’re talking, friends. If Deoxys Defense Forme and O☂nix were too passive for you, this colossal creature will probably be right up your alley.
Groudon was more than dang enough to contend with in its base form, but Primal Groudon really raised the stakes. This Fire- and Ground- type crushed the entire metagame into sad, tiny fleks under its scaly boot when it arrived (Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire). It tended to be used simply to brute force its way through an opponent’s team, a task for which it was equipped as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the last half hour of Commando. Still, its defensive prowess sౠhouldn’t be forgotten.
11 ไ 💞 Bastiodon- 168
Bastiodon here must be feeling pretty darn smug, beating out the last three Pokémon by a few measly base stats. Unfortunately, though, that doesn’t make it a better Pokémon. When did you last see a Bastion being used seriously in a competitive matchꦺ? Never, that’s wඣhen. As much as Steel-types are known for their defensive prowess, Bastiodon has all manner of issues holding it back.
Its Rock/Steel typing is far too easy to exploit, leaving it very vulnerable to common types. It can’t bring any real offenওse to the table by itself, either, and its HP lets it d𒈔own. Still 168 Defense and 138 Special Defense is impressive by anyone’s Poké-standards.
10 ꦦ Cloyster: 180 🌜
Next up, 🍃we’ve got a Gen I stalwart: the Water- and Ice-type Cloyster. Who’d have thought that the teeny, adorable Shellder would evolve into a powerhouse with a mighty 180 base Defense?
Much of the time, sadly, that stat doesn’t r💫eally do it much good. As an secondary Ice Pokémon, Cloyster has some unfortunate weaknesses that really hamper its ability to take hits. In addition, Cloyster is more often used offensively, crushing🦂 teams into sad little salty hunks of defeat with its patented Skill Link/Shell Smash strategy. Just make sure it doesn’t take any special attacks, as it can’t withstand those at all.
9 Meg🥀a S🌌lowbro: 180
Now, Slowbro 📖and its stylish cousin Slowking have always been known as tanky Pokémon. They have some potent Special Attack, too, makiꦿng them perfectly suited to both setting up Trick Room and causing some havoc under its effects.
When Slowbro Mega Evolves, its tankiness is heightened even further. Its base Defense hits 180 in this form, which only ties with our last-place entry, Cloyster. However, it also has an ace up its sleeve: Shell Armor. With this Ability, opponents are unable to score a critical hit on the pink behemoth, which can mꦦake it super hard to take down. If it starts setting up Calm Minds and such in your face, you’re in for a world of pain.
8 Avalugg: 184💛 ♚
So, yes. We’ve already covered the wo𝓰es of Ice-types, and how being weak to absolutely everything ever can be a little counter-productive when you’re trying to tank hits. Avalugg is the absolute epitome of an Ice-type attempt atꩲ being a tank, boasting the highest Defense of any Ice Pokémon in the series to date.
At a formidable base 184 Defense, Avalugg can take most physical hits, and deal some considerable damage back to bo🌼ot with its respectable Attack. With its lackluster Speed and hilariously low Special Defense (base 46), though, it’ll usually struggle to sustain itself for long.
7 Regirock: 200 🀅
If there’s any typing that’s as offensively useful (and defensively useless) as Ice (as we'v꧅e mentioned), it’d be our rugged buddies the Rock-types. Yes, they gave Charmander fans nightmares back in the late 90s as they tried to Tackle and Ember their way through Brock’s gym, but otherwise, their myr🏅iad weaknesses are just too exploitable.
Nobody gave Regirock that memo, though. With its 200 base Defense, it can take some surprising physical punishment before being sent scurrying back into its Poké Ball. Even better than that, it can go on the offensive and even sw🌄eep itself with the use of a fiendish Roc🎃k Polish/Sturdy/Weakness Policy strategy.
6 Steel🌼ix: 200
Steel-type Pokémon have been known as some of the most defensively-oriented in the game since the typing was first introduced. In fact, Steel was nerfed m🍌ore recently so that it no longer resists Dark and Ghost (Metagross and Jirachi were not amused).
Steelix is the absolute embodiment of the unstoppable defensive strength of Steel Pokémon. It’s a 30-foot-long (plus a little more) metal-bodied snake, after💖 all. Base 200 defense makes it a force to be reckoned with, yes, but its Steel/Ground typing again leaves it with some 🌟common weaknesses: Fighting, Water, Fire, and Ground.