#1000
— Coin Entity Pokémon
Gholdengo
Abilities
MetaMons competitive notes
Gholdengo is a steel/ghost-type Pokémon whose base stats lean toward Special Attack — at 550 BST it is a strong total for competitive play, with above-average speed (base 84) and a special attacking profile. Its Good As Gold ability matters more than the raw numbers when it hits the field: check what it does before deciding between a sweeper, pivot, or support role for Gholdengo. Build around what Gholdengo actually threatens, not its in-game lore — start from its weaknesses and strongest STAB moves, then decide whether its Speed, bulk, or coverage justifies a team slot.
Reviewed competitive profile
Reviewed by Metamons Team
Gholdengo turns hazard pressure into a team-wide plan by making several removal and status options awkward or impossible. Its value is not simply switching into Defog: the user must preserve enough health and position it so the opponent pays for attempting removal.
Gen 9 OU: This profile focuses on Gholdengo's interaction with status moves and hazard control in OU.
Good as Gold and Ghost typing interfere with common removal lines, giving hazard setters more durable progress.
Make It Rain forces damage through many neutral targets even when hazard control is not relevant.
Starting blueprint
This is an explained starting point, not a claim that one set fits every matchup. Compare it with the live format presets in the team builder.
- Item
- Air Balloon
- Ability
- Good as Gold
- Nature
- Timid
- Tera type
- Flying
EV approach
Prioritize Speed and Special Attack. Preserve the Air Balloon until the Ground immunity creates a specific removal or positioning advantage.
Moves and jobs
Make It Rain
Powerful Steel STAB for immediate progress.
Shadow Ball
Consistent secondary STAB without a stat drop.
Recover
Keeps the hazard-control plan available across a longer game.
Nasty Plot
Punishes passive attempts to wait out Gholdengo.
Identify the opponent's removal method before risking Gholdengo. If Great Tusk is the remover, preserving Air Balloon can matter more than taking early damage; if removal relies on status moves, positioning around Good as Gold becomes central. Avoid using Make It Rain carelessly when the Special Attack drop gives a dangerous setup Pokémon a free turn.
Checks to plan for
- Kingambit — resists both STAB types and creates dangerous priority sequences.
- Great Tusk — threatens Ground damage after Air Balloon is removed.
- Dragapult — outspeeds and threatens super-effective Ghost damage.
Partners that solve a job
- Garchomp — supplies the hazards Gholdengo helps preserve.
- Great Tusk — provides removal and Knock Off support on the same hazard stack.
- Kingambit — absorbs Ghost pressure and benefits from accumulated chip.
- Switching into removal without checking the opponent's coverage move.
- Breaking Air Balloon for negligible chip.
- Giving setup sweepers a free turn after Make It Rain lowers Special Attack.
Damage multipliers when attacked by each type
A MetaMons teambuilding read based on base stats and typing
Gholdengo takes super-effective damage from Fire, Ground, Ghost, Dark moves — every one of those types is a check you need an answer for when drafting. Before locking Gholdengo into a team, check the weakness guide and count how many of those types your remaining five slots can answer.
- Highest stat
- Special Attack (133)
- Lowest stat
- Attack (60)
- Offensive lean
- special
- Speed tier
- above-average speed (base 84)
- BST
- 550 (strong for the format)
Gholdengo is a steel/ghost-type Pokémon whose base stats lean toward Special Attack — at 550 BST it is a strong total for competitive play, with above-average speed (base 84) and a special attacking profile. Its Good As Gold ability matters more than the raw numbers when it hits the field: check what it does before deciding between a sweeper, pivot, or support role for Gholdengo. Build around what Gholdengo actually threatens, not its in-game lore — start from its weaknesses and strongest STAB moves, then decide whether its Speed, bulk, or coverage justifies a team slot. Compare this profile against your roster's shared weaknesses in the MetaMons team builder, where the 18-type coverage heatmap reads the whole team, not one slot.
About Gholdengo
Gholdengo is the Coin Entity Pokémon a Steel/Ghost type Pokémon. It has a base stat total of 550 with Good As Gold as its ability.
What is Gholdengo weak to?
Gholdengo is a Steel/Ghost-type, so it takes super-effective damage from Fire, Ground, Ghost, Dark. It resists Bug, Grass, Ice, Flying, Psychic, Rock, Dragon, Steel, Fairy. It is immune to Normal, Fighting, Poison.
How to counter Gholdengo
To counter Gholdengo in competitive play, bring Pokémon that can hit back with Fire or Ground or Ghost or Dark moves and can withstand its Steel/Ghost STAB attacks. Check the type-defense grid above for the full multiplier breakdown.
Using Gholdengo in competitive teams
Gholdengo can be added to Smogon or VGC teams across Gen 1–9 formats. Build a competitive team with Gholdengo on Metamons and get AI reads on your type coverage and threats before you queue.
