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Kingambit

Big Blade Pokémon

Game version

AppearanceStandard

Kingambit

Kingambit (shiny)

Height: 2.0 m
Weight: 120.0 kg

Training & breeding details

Gender50.0% ♂ · 50.0% ♀

Catch rate25(7.7%)Hard

Base friendship50Low

Hatch time20 cycles · ~5,355 steps

Growth ratemedium

Base EXP275

Though it commands a massive army in battle, it’s not skilled at devising complex strategies. It just uses brute strength to keep pushing.

In Pokémon GO · 3614 max CP 1 TCG Pocket card

Base stats

HP

100

Attack

135

Defense

120

Sp. Atk

60

Sp. Def

85

Speed

50

Total

550

Base Stat Total

Abilities

Raises Attack two stages upon having any stat lowered.

Supreme Overlord

Attack and Special Attack are boosted for each party Pokémon that has been defeated.

Increases the PP cost of moves targetting the Pokémon by one.

Egg groups: Human-Like

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Type defenses

Damage taken from each attacking type.

Weak to

Resistant to

Rock½×

Ice½×

Dark½×

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

Swords Dance

UBERS

Moves

Item

Black Glasses / Air Balloon / Lum Berry

AbilitySupreme Overlord

NatureAdamant+Atk/−SpA

TeraDarkFire

EV spread

HP248

Atk▲252

SpD8

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

Evolution

Pawniard

Lv. 52

Bisharp

three defeated bisharp

Kingambit

All Pokémon evolution families

Notable moves

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

Kowtow CleaveSTAB

Flash CannonSTAB

Moves

Find a move17 of 17

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

Lv.	Move & effect	Type	Class	Power	Acc.	PP
0	Kowtow Cleave	Dark	Physical	85	—	10
1	Fury Cutter Power doubles every turn this move is used in succession after the first, maxing out after five turns.	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
1	Leer Lowers the target’s Defense by one stage.	Normal	Status	—	100	30
1	Metal Burst Strikes back at the last Pokémon to hit the user this turn with 1.5× the damage.	Steel	Physical	—	100	10
1	Metal Claw Has a chance to raise the user’s Attack by one stage.	Steel	Physical	50	95	35
1	Scratch Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.	Normal	Physical	40	100	35
15	Torment Prevents the target from using the same move twice in a row.	Dark	Status	—	100	15
20	Scary Face Lowers the target’s Speed by two stages.	Normal	Status	—	100	10
25	Assurance Power is doubled if the target has already received damage this turn.	Dark	Physical	60	100	10
30	Metal Sound Lowers the target’s Special Defense by two stages.	Steel	Status	—	85	40
35	Slash Has an increased chance for a critical hit.	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
40	Night Slash Has an increased chance for a critical hit.	Dark	Physical	70	100	15
45	Iron Defense Raises the user’s Defense by two stages.	Steel	Status	—	—	15
50	Retaliate Has double power if a friendly Pokémon fainted last turn.	Normal	Physical	70	100	5
57	Iron Head Has a chance to make the target flinch.	Steel	Physical	80	100	15
64	Swords Dance Raises the user’s Attack by two stages.	Normal	Status	—	—	20
71	Guillotine Causes a one-hit KO.	Normal	Physical	—	30	5

Sprites & renders

9 sprites & renders for Kingambit.

Official artwork

Pokémon HOME

Animated

Animated (back)

Front

Back

Across the games

Black · White

champions

scarlet violet

More Dark-type Pokémon

Others that share this Pokémon's primary type.

All Dark-type Pokémon

Community notes

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Cite this page

“Kingambit”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/pokedex/kingambit.

Species data from PokéAPI.