#1000 · Gen 9 · 550 BST

Gholdengo

SteelGhost Good As GoldGood As Gold

Good as Gold blocks all status moves including Defog/Spin attempts.

Base stats

HP 87

Attack 60

Defense 95

Sp. Atk 133

Sp. Def 91

Speed 84

Level 50, min EVs/IVs, − nature

162/72/103/137/99/93

Level 50, 252 EVs, 31 IVs, + nature

194/123/161/203/157/149

Abilities

Good As Gold

A body of pure, solid gold gives the Pokémon full immunity to other Pokémon's status moves.

Good As Gold

A body of pure, solid gold gives the Pokémon full immunity to other Pokémon's status moves.

Gholdengo's learnset

43 moves in Gen 9 (Scarlet/Violet). Click any move for full data and damage calc.

Move	Type	Cat	BP	Acc
Astonish	ghost	physical	30	100
Charge Beam	electric	special	50	90
Confuse Ray	ghost	other	—	100
Dazzling Gleam	fairy	special	80	100
Electro Ball	electric	special	1	100
Endure	normal	other	—	101
Flash Cannon	steel	special	80	100
Fling	dark	physical	1	100
Focus Blast	fighting	special	120	70
Giga Impact	normal	physical	150	90
Heavy Slam	steel	physical	1	100
Hex	ghost	special	65	100
Hyper Beam	normal	special	150	90
Iron Head	steel	physical	80	100
Light Screen	psychic	other	—	101
Low Kick	fighting	physical	1	100
Low Sweep	fighting	physical	65	100
Make It Rain	steel	special	120	100
Memento	dark	other	—	100
Metal Sound	steel	other	—	85
Nasty Plot	dark	other	—	101
Night Shade	ghost	special	1	100
Power Gem	rock	special	80	100
Protect	normal	other	—	101
Psychic	psychic	special	90	100
Psyshock	psychic	special	80	100
Recover	normal	other	—	101
Reflect	psychic	other	—	101
Rest	psychic	other	—	101
Sandstorm	rock	other	—	101
Shadow Ball	ghost	special	80	100
Sleep Talk	normal	other	—	101
Steel Beam	steel	special	140	95
Substitute	normal	other	—	101
Tackle	normal	physical	40	100
Take Down	normal	physical	90	85
Tera Blast	normal	physical/special	80	100
Thief	dark	physical	60	100
Thunder	electric	special	110	70
Thunder Punch	electric	physical	75	100
Thunder Wave	electric	other	—	90
Thunderbolt	electric	special	90	100
Trick	psychic	other	—	100

Type effectiveness

Takes 2× damage from

FireGroundGhostDark

Takes ½× damage from

GrassIceFlyingPsychicRockDragonSteelFairy

Takes ¼× damage from

Bug

Takes 0× damage from

NormalFightingPoison

Use the type chart for the full 18×18 matchup grid.

About Gholdengo

Gholdengo is a Steel/Ghost-type Pokémon from Generation 9 with a Base Stat Total of 550. Good as Gold blocks all status moves including Defog/Spin attempts.

Best stat: Special Attack (133 base)

Gholdengo's standout stat informs its competitive role. With 133 base Special Attack and 84 base Speed, the standard offensive set will invest 252 EVs into Special Attack and 252 into Speed.

Abilities

Good As Gold
Good As Gold

How to use Gholdengo competitively

Open the damage calculator with Gholdengo selected to test offensive matchups. For an EV spread that hits key benchmarks, use the EV calculator — Gholdengo appears in the species dropdown. Drop Gholdengo into the team builder to check coverage with five teammates.

Competitive build

We have a hand-written competitive build for Gholdengo — see the Gholdengo build page for the optimal item, ability, Tera type, EV spread, moveset, partners, and counters.

Pokédex data summary

National Dex #	#1000
Generation	Gen 9
Type	Steel / Ghost
Abilities	Good As Gold, Good As Gold
Base Stat Total	550
HP / Atk / Def / SpA / SpD / Spe	87 / 60 / 95 / 133 / 91 / 84