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Excadrill

#0530
Attack
255
Defense
129
Stamina
242
Best fast:
Mud-Slap 15.20 DPS with STAB
Best charged:
Scorching Sands 2.16 DPE with STAB
Max CP:
3,711

In-game artwork for this exact form (PokeMiners asset dump).

FormsExcadrillMega Excadrill
Slug:
excadrill
Game Master form:
EXCADRILL (no form template)
Family:
FAMILY_DRILBUR

Base stats and CP

Straight from the Game Master; CP uses the level 1 to 51 CPM table. Ranks are recomputed over the released forms in the snapshot on every render.

Attack#111 of 1,123 · top 9.9%
255
Defense#699 of 1,123 · top 62.2%
129
Stamina#48 of 1,123 · top 4.3%
242

Stat product 7,960,590 — #209 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.

Max CP (L40)
3,244
15/15/15, old level cap
Max CP (L50)
3,667
15/15/15, current level cap
Max CP (L51)
3,711
15/15/15 best buddy — Pokebattler's headline
Catch CP (L20)
1,770 - 1,853
IV 10 to 15
Catch CP (L25)
2,212 - 2,317
weather boosted, IV 10 to 15

Evolution family

1 evolution in this line, with the candy and everything else the game asks for — read out of the Game Master's evolutionBranch, form by form.

  1. Base
  2. Stage 2
    Excadrill255/129/242 · 3,244 CP
    50 candy
    • 45 candy once purified

Evolutions are form-accurate: a regional form evolves into its own regional form, and a branch the game does not have is not drawn (Alolan Raichu names Pikachu as its parent but is not what Pikachu evolves into, so no line is shown). Mega Evolution is not part of this family — it costs Mega Energy and reverts, so it sits with the forms above.

In the field

Buddy, Pokedex and unlock numbers, all read from this form's own Game Master template.

Buddy distance
3 km
walked per candy
Height
0.7 m
Weight
40.4 kg
Second charged move
50 candy
50,000 stardust
Shadow move
Frustration
Return once purified

Best against

Which raid bosses Excadrill is a top counter for, aggregated over the 120 bosses on the roster the same way pokebattler.com aggregates its own attacker rankings.

Top ten finishes
21
of 120 bosses ranked
Matchups
37
bosses it places on at all
Points
920
Pokebattler's published weighting

Its best showing is1againstNihilego(Tier 5) with Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands.

  • #1NihilegorockpoisonTier 5
    Estimator
    1.60
    Time to win
    7:21
    Points
    50
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #1RegielekielectricTier 5
    Estimator
    1.60
    Time to win
    7:22
    Points
    50
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #1Tapu KokoelectricfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    2.25
    Time to win
    10:22
    Points
    50
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #2PikachuelectricTier 1live
    Estimator
    0.07
    Time to win
    0:12
    Points
    0
    Mud Shot + Earthquake
  • #2XurkitreeelectricTier 5
    Estimator
    1.93
    Time to win
    8:53
    Points
    40
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #2ZeraoraelectricTier 5
    Estimator
    2.26
    Time to win
    10:24
    Points
    40
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #2RaikouelectricTier 5
    Estimator
    2.48
    Time to win
    11:25
    Points
    40
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #3XerneasfairyTier 5live
    Estimator
    2.53
    Time to win
    11:38
    Points
    40
    Metal Claw + Iron Head
  • #3DialgasteeldragonTier 5
    Estimator
    2.69
    Time to win
    12:24
    Points
    40
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #3ZacianfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    3.02
    Time to win
    13:55
    Points
    40
    Metal Claw + Iron Head
  • #4HeatranfiresteelTier 5
    Estimator
    1.94
    Time to win
    8:55
    Points
    30
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #4DiancierockfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    2.25
    Time to win
    10:20
    Points
    30
    Metal Claw + Iron Head
  • #4Dialga (Origin)steeldragonTier 5
    Estimator
    2.84
    Time to win
    13:04
    Points
    30
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #6StakatakarocksteelTier 5
    Estimator
    2.32
    Time to win
    10:39
    Points
    30
    Mud-Slap + Scorching Sands
  • #6Enamorus (Therian)fairyflyingTier 5
    Estimator
    2.62
    Time to win
    12:03
    Points
    30
    Metal Claw + Iron Head

"Details" opens Excadrill's per-move damage against that boss, its breakpoints and its energy cycle — the same drawer the boss page opens.

22 more placings not shown.

Ranked with Shadow, Mega and Legendary attackers hidden — pokebattler.com's own default, so a place here is comparable with a place on its counter page. With everything switched on it places on 10 bosses (best #13 vs Nihilego). Its Shadow form places on 22 more, best #5 vs Pikachu. Points follow pokebattler.com's published rule — 5 for a first place, 4 for a second, 3 for a fourth, 2 for an eighth, 1 for a sixteenth, weighted 10x at Tier 5 / Mega, 4x at Tier 3 and 0x at Tier 1. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging. Snapshot generated 2026-10-05.

As a raid boss (Tier 3)

Boss stats use 15/15/15 IVs, the tier CP multiplier and the tier's fixed HP pool.

Lobby CP
19,440
Attack
197
Defense
105
HP
3,600

Not in the current raid rotation snapshot. The counters below are still exact for the tier this form would be hosted at.

Best counters against Excadrill →

Catch CP after the raid

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor1,7702,212
11/11/111,7862,233
12/12/121,8032,254
13/13/131,8202,275
14/14/141,8362,296
15/15/15hundo1,8532,317

Caught CP range 1,770 - 1,853, or 2,212 - 2,317 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

Type matchups

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 0.625x resisted, 0.390625x doubly resisted.

  • Weak (4)
  • Neutral (4)
  • Resists (9)
  • Double resists (1)

Every tile and chip is a link: it opens the Pokedex filtered to that type, so a weakness leads straight to the attackers that exploit it. Pokebattler lists only the weaknesses; the eleven types that do neither matter as much to a raider deciding what to bring, so all 18 are shown with the exact multiplier.

Same typing, same matchups

Released ground / steel forms with the highest attack — they share every weakness and resistance above.

Movepool

3 fast and 5 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 moveset23.1 DPS

20 x Metal Claw per Earthquake · 13.5s cycle · 312 power with STAB

#222.6 DPS
groundMud-Slap

8 x Mud-Slap per Earthquake · 15.5s cycle · 350 power with STAB

#322.5 DPS

10 x Metal Claw per Scorching Sands · 8.0s cycle · 180 power with STAB

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSEPSSource
Mud-SlapSTABground19+131.5s15.208.67standard
Metal ClawSTABsteel6+50.5s14.4010.00standard
Mud ShotSTABground4+60.5s9.6012.00standard

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSDPESource
Scorching SandsSTABground90-503.0s36.002.16standard
Drill RunSTABground85-503.0s34.002.04standard
EarthquakeSTABground140-1003.5s48.001.68standard
Rock Sliderock75-502.5s30.001.50standard
Iron HeadSTABsteel60-502.0s36.001.44standard

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.

Trainer Battles

The same moves, on the Trainer Battle clock: 0.5s per turn, 100 energy cap, stat changes included. These numbers come from a separate Game Master template and are not the raid numbers above.

Best pairing11.4DPT

Mud-Slap+Drill Run

4 fast throws · 12 turns · 6.0s to fire

#211.3DPT

Mud-Slap+Earthquake

7 fast throws · 21 turns · 10.5s to fire

#310.8DPT

Mud-Slap+Scorching Sands

5 fast throws · 15 turns · 7.5s to fire

Lowers the opponent's Attack by 1 stage (10% chance)

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyTurnsDPTEPT
Mud-SlapSTABground11+103(1.5s)4.403.33
Metal ClawSTABsteel5+72(1.0s)3.003.50
Mud ShotSTABground3+92(1.0s)1.804.50

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDPEEffect
EarthquakeSTABground120-652.22none
Drill RunSTABground70-402.10none
Scorching SandsSTABground80-501.92foe Atk -1 @10%
Iron HeadSTABsteel70-501.68none
Rock Sliderock75-451.67none

Turns are the one-based count the game and every reference site print: the Game Master ships a zero-based durationTurns, so its 1 is a 2-turn move. DPT and EPT are damage and energy per turn and DPE is damage per energy, both with this form's x1.2 STAB already in them where the row is flagged STAB, so the columns can be read straight down; Power and Energy stay raw. A stat change moves the target up or down the game's own ladder (0.50, 0.57, 0.67, 0.80, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 for stages -4 to +4). Every Trainer Battle number is audited on the data-quality page.

Acquisition and variants

Shadow and Purified

Available as a Shadow Pokemon (x1.2 attack, x0.833 defense). Shadow charged move FRUSTRATION, purified RETURN.

Second charged move

50,000 Stardust and 50 Candy.

Max Battles

Dynamax capable.

Mega Evolution

This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.

Forms of Excadrill (2)

Every form the snapshot carries for this dex number. Each one appears exactly once.

FormTypesAtkDefStaMovesStatus
Excadrillgroundsteel2551292423f / 5creleased
Mega Excadrillgroundsteel3221842423f / 5cNot released in Pokemon GO

Where this data comes from

Every field above is read from the committed snapshot, never typed by hand.

Built 2026-10-03 from the PokeMiners Game Master (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeMiners/game_masters/master/latest/latest.json), refreshed automatically every day.

No hand-curated correction was needed for this form; it comes straight from the Game Master template.

Checked against Pokebattler1 movepool difference

Their entry: EXCADRILL — 3 fast, 6 charged. Ours: 3 fast, 5 charged.

  • Return (charged) — only on Pokebattler: Return (purified only)

Source: https://fight.pokebattler.com/pokemon, read 2026-10-03. The full diff across all 1,269 forms is on the movepool cross-check.

Snapshot integrity is re-checked on every build and on the data quality page.