Best moves

Hippopotas

Movepool

3 fast and 3 charged moves, elite / legacy included. Ranked by damage per second (fast) and damage per energy (charged), both with this form's x1.2 STAB applied where it earns it.

Best moveset18.6 DPS

groundSand Attack

groundDig

8 x Sand Attack per Dig · 8.5s cycle · 158 power with STAB

#218.0 DPS

darkBite

groundDig

13 x Bite per Dig · 11.0s cycle · 198 power with STAB

#317.9 DPS

normalTackle

groundDig

10 x Tackle per Dig · 9.5s cycle · 170 power with STAB

Fast moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Duration	DPS	EPS	Att DPS	Def DPS	PvP	Source
Bite	dark	6	+4	0.5s	12.00	8.00	2.4	12.0	4 / 2 / 1t	standard
Tackle	normal	5	+5	0.5s	10.00	10.00	2.0	10.0	3 / 3 / 1t	standard
Sand AttackSTAB	ground	4	+7	0.5s	9.60	14.00	1.6	8.0	2 / 4 / 1t	standard

Charged moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Duration	DPS	DPE	Att DPS	Def DPS	PvP	Source
DigSTAB	ground	100	-50	4.5s	26.67	2.40	15.4	22.2	70 / 50	standard
Body Slam	normal	50	-33	2.0s	25.00	1.52	12.5	25.0	55 / 35	standard
Rock Tomb	rock	65	-50	3.0s	21.67	1.30	13.0	21.7	75 / 50	standard

STAB marks moves that share a type with this form (x1.2 damage), and the DPS and DPE columns above already have that x1.2 in them — so a STAB move and a stronger-on-paper neutral move can be compared straight down the column, which is how the best-moveset cards rank them too. Power and Duration stay raw; hover a DPS or DPE figure to see the arithmetic. Att DPS and Def DPS are the two columns pokebattler.com prints in the same table, reproduced exactly: both are raw with no STAB, Def DPS is power / duration, and Att DPS is power / (duration + 2s), the gym move delay. They are there so this table can be diffed against theirs row by row — every row on the pages read on 2026-09-11 matches. Energy is gained on fast moves and spent on charged moves. Every move name opens its own page with the damage window and every other form that learns it — or browse all moves.