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Sandshrew Alolan Form

#27

Ice
Steel
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An image of the Pokemon Sandshrew Alolan Form #27 in the Pokedex
When its skin gets wrinkled from moisture, it heads for a volcano. It lies flat on a spot with a lot of geothermal heat and dries itself out.

Weakness Table

This is a list of Sandshrew Alolan Form's weaknesses. These Pokemon types in the green zone will be strong against Sandshrew Alolan Form:
4x
Fighting
Fire
2x
Ground
1x
Dark
Electric
Ghost
Rock
Steel
Water
0.5x
Bug
Dragon
Fairy
Flying
Grass
Normal
Psychic
0.25x
Ice
Immune
Poison
: Types marked with this symbol will receive extra damage from Sandshrew Alolan Form's STAB attacks.

Sandshrew Alolan Form will receive 96% more damage from a Special Attack compared to a Physical Attack.

Special attack icon

Sandshrew Alolan Form's Weaknesses

Best Counters

Sandshrew Alolan Form is especially weak against Fighting and Fire type Pokemon, they will deal 4x damage to it!

The types that are strong against Sandshrew Alolan Form are Fighting and Fire type Pokemon.

Fighting
Fire

For the best defense, Fire, Water, Steel types have very effective defense against Sandshrew Alolan Form, and will be resistant to damage from Sandshrew Alolan Form's STAB attacks:

Fire
Water
Steel

Ground types will also deal super-effective damage against Sandshrew Alolan Form, but be careful using Pokemon of this type because they may also receive extra damage from some of Sandshrew Alolan Form's attacks!

Ground

Weaknesses

Sandshrew Alolan Form's type is Ice and Steel.

Sandshrew Alolan Form is especially vulnerable to Fighting and Fire attacks, it will receive a super effective four times (4x) the amount of damage! Since Fighting and Fire type Pokemon are especially strong against Sandshrew Alolan Form, you should attack with this type of Pokemon.

Sandshrew Alolan Form has a weakness to Fighting, Fire, Ground types. These Pokemon types will be strong against Sandshrew Alolan Form, causing Sandshrew Alolan Form to take a super effective quadruple (4x) damage from Fighting and Fire type attacks, and causing Sandshrew Alolan Form to take a super effective double (2x) damage from Ground type attacks.

Poison type attacks will have no effect on Sandshrew Alolan Form, as Sandshrew Alolan Form is immune to this type of damage! Please avoid these types of attacks.

Please keep in mind that Sandshrew Alolan Form is resistant to attacks from Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Grass, Normal, Psychic, Ice types, and these attacks are not very effective and cause reduced damage, so they should be avoided.

Strong against Sandshrew Alolan Form:

Pokemon of these types will deal effective damage against Sandshrew Alolan Form, without suffering any extra damage:
4x
Fighting
Fire
1x
Dark
Electric
Ghost
Steel
Water
0.5x
Bug
Normal
Psychic
Immune
Poison

Strength Table

Here is what Sandshrew Alolan Form is strong against:
2x
Dragon
Fairy
Flying
Grass
Ground
Ice
Rock
1x
Bug
Dark
Electric
Fighting
Ghost
Normal
Poison
Psychic
0.5x
Fire
Steel
Water

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