#0980

Clodsire

Spiny Fish Pokémon

Game version

AppearanceStandard

Clodsire

Clodsire (shiny)

Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 223.0 kg

Training & breeding details

Gender50.0% ♂ · 50.0% ♀

Catch rate90(20.1%)Moderate

Base friendship50Low

Hatch time20 cycles · ~5,355 steps

Growth ratemedium

Base EXP151

It lives at the bottom of ponds and swamps. It will carry Wooper on its back and ferry them across water from one shore to the other.

In Pokémon GO · 1952 max CP

Base stats

HP

130

Attack

75

Defense

60

Sp. Atk

45

Sp. Def

100

Speed

20

Total

430

Base Stat Total

Abilities

Has a 30% chance of poisoning attacking Pokémon on contact.

Absorbs Water moves, healing for 1/4 max HP.

Ignores other Pokémon's stat modifiers for damage and accuracy calculation.

Egg groups: Water 1, Field

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Type defenses

Damage taken from each attacking type.

Weak to

Ice2×

Resistant to

Rock½×

Bug½×

Immune to

Competitive movesets

Smogon University

Battle-ready sets by tier, straight from Smogon. Pick a generation and format — a “/” means either option works in that slot.

Generation

Special Wall

UBERS

Moves

Item

Heavy-Duty Boots / Leftovers

AbilityWater Absorb

NatureCareful+SpD/−SpA

TeraSteelFairy

EV spread

HP252

Atk4

SpD▲252

Source: Smogon (via pkmn) · Updated: Oct 6, 2026

Evolution

Wooper

Lv. 20

Quagsire

Lv. 20

Clodsire

All Pokémon evolution families

Notable moves

The strongest damaging moves Clodsire can learn — same-type (STAB) moves get a 1.5× power bonus in battle.

Sludge WaveSTAB

High HorsepowerSTAB

Earth PowerSTAB

Sludge BombSTAB

Moves

Find a move13 of 13

Scroll across the table for type, power, accuracy and PP →

Lv.	Move & effect	Type	Class	Power	Acc.	PP
0	Amnesia Raises the user’s Special Defense by two stages.	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
1	Poison Sting Has a chance to poison the target.	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
1	Tail Whip Lowers the target’s Defense by one stage.	Normal	Status	—	100	30
4	Toxic Spikes Scatters poisoned spikes, poisoning opposing Pokémon that switch in.	Poison	Status	—	—	20
8	Mud Shot Has a chance to lower the target’s Speed by one stage.	Ground	Special	55	95	15
12	Poison Tail Has an increased chance for a critical hit and a chance to poison the target.	Poison	Physical	50	100	25
16	Slam Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Normal	Physical	80	75	20
21	Yawn Target sleeps at the end of the next turn.	Normal	Status	—	—	10
24	Poison Jab Has a chance to poison the target.	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
30	Sludge Wave Has a chance to poison the target.	Poison	Special	95	100	10
36	Megahorn Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Bug	Physical	120	85	10
40	Toxic Badly poisons the target, inflicting more damage every turn.	Poison	Status	—	90	10
48	Earthquake Inflicts regular damage and can hit Dig users.	Ground	Physical	100	100	10

Sprites & renders

8 sprites & renders for Clodsire.

Official artwork

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Animated

Animated (back)

Front

Back

Across the games

Black · White

scarlet violet

More Poison-type Pokémon

Others that share this Pokémon's primary type.

All Poison-type Pokémon

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Cite this page

“Clodsire”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/pokedex/clodsire.

Species data from PokéAPI.