Swalot

  Swalot swallows just about anything whole.  Its special enzymes can dissolve anything.  In fact, the only thing in the entire world Swalot cannot swallow is its own stomach. It sweats toxic fluids from its follicles to douse foes.  It does this to prey and then gulps them down.

  Swalot is the only pure Poison-Type in 3rd Generation that has an evolutionary chain.  I just had to point that out.  But with that aside, Swalot is like something whose eating abilities rival that of Snorlax's.  In the Pokedex entries, it is stated that Swalot can devour anything but its own stomach.  So does this mean it could somehow an entire building?  Only the Swalot will know.  Onto Swalot's stats, we see that he's got acceptable Offensive and Defensive stats.  His Defensive stats have a base of 83, and his Offensive stats have a base of 73.  Swalot is a slow Pokemon with a low Speed stat with a puny base of 55.  Finally, Swalot's HP stat is his hugest, with a fair base of 100.  So it has high HP, low Speed, and the rest is balanced out.  It's a weird stat combination, but with EV Training, Swalot's stats aren't too bad.  

   Swalot is a Poison-Type, so it doesn't have as many STAB moves as other Poison-Types with two types.  Swalot has balanced stats, so both Physical and Special attacks will match up just fine with Swalot's stats.  Swalot's best stab moves include Sludge Bomb, Sludge Wave, and the most powerful of them all, Gunk Shot.  Other good moves in Swalot's movepool are Body Slam, Gastro Acid, Wring Out, Destiny Bond, Pain Split, Strength, Hidden Power, Ice Beam, Hyper Beam, Solarbeam- (& Sunny Day), Earthquake, Shadow Ball, Explosion, and Giga Impact.  Those are the best moves in my opinion.  Check out Swalot's movepool yourself and see which move are the best in your opinion.

   If you use a Swalot, than you want the ability Liquid Ooze.  It inflicts damage on opponents when they use any draining moves.  If your opponent were to use a move like Giga Drain or Dream Eater, they wouldn't steal HP, but would lose HP instead.  This is the best ability Swalot has got.  Being a Poison-Type, Swalot is weak to Psychic-Type moves like Dream Eater.  Your opponent makes Swalot fall asleep and then they try Dream Eater, only to lose HP. Swalot's other ability is Sticky Hold.  This ability will have you keep your item, even if an opponent uses a move such as Knock Off.  It isn't exactly the most useful ability out there.  And please don't get me started with Swalot's Dream World ability Gluttony.  All it does is have Swalot use its held berry earlier in battle.  It's just worthless.

  So overall, Swalot is the digesting hero of the day, with a somewhat limited but acceptable movepool.  Although two of its three entire abilities aren't exactly the best ones of them all, keep Liquid Ooze and you should be fine.  This is not everybody's first choice, and it's true; there are many better Poison-Types out there, but Swalot is an okay Pokemon and one of my personal favorites.  Great job designing this guy Game Freak.  No joke!