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Ekans

#23

Poison
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An image of the Pokemon Ekans #23 in the Pokedex
The older it gets, the longer it grows. At night, it wraps its long body around tree branches to rest.

Weakness Table

This is a list of Ekans's weaknesses. These Pokemon types in the green zone will be strong against Ekans:
2x
Ground
Psychic
1x
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Electric
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Ice
Normal
Rock
Steel
Water
0.5x
Fairy
Fighting
Grass
Poison
: Types marked with this symbol will receive extra damage from Ekans' STAB attacks.

Ekans will receive 15% more damage from a Physical Attack compared to a Special Attack.

Physical attack icon

Ekans' Weaknesses

Best Counters

The types that are strong against Ekans are Ground and Psychic type Pokemon.

Ground
Psychic

For the best defense, Ground, Steel, Rock, Ghost types have very effective defense against Ekans, and will be resistant to damage from Ekans' STAB attacks:

Ground
Steel
Rock
Ghost

Weaknesses

Ekans' type is Poison.

Ekans has a weakness to Ground and Psychic types. These Pokemon types will be strong against Ekans, causing Ekans to take a super effective double (2x) damage from attacks of those types.

Please keep in mind that Ekans is resistant to attacks from Fairy, Fighting, Grass, Poison types, and these attacks are not very effective and cause reduced damage, so they should be avoided.

Strong against Ekans:

Pokemon of these types will deal effective damage against Ekans, without suffering any extra damage:
2x
Ground
Psychic
1x
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Electric
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Ice
Normal
Rock
Steel
Water
0.5x
Fighting
Poison

Strength Table

Here is what Ekans is strong against:
2x
Fairy
Grass
1x
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Electric
Fighting
Fire
Flying
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Water
0.5x
Ghost
Ground
Poison
Rock
No Effect
Steel

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