Looking at Pokemon: Lileep

March 12, 2009

Lileep is a Rock/Grass Pokemon from the third generation of Pokemon games. Introduced in the Ruby and Sapphire games for the GBA Lileep sits at number 345 on the National Dex and is only available as a fossil that must be brought back to life by visiting a certain scientist. This Pokemon can be found in the Underground on Diamond, Pearl and Platinum in its Root Fossil form.

Lileep comes with the ability Suction Cups: Prevents moves that make you switch Pokemon from working. Increases catch rate while fishing.

Lileep can be acquired via game play by searching the Underground for a Root Fossil and bringing said fossil to the Oreburgh Mine Museum. Once revived this Pokemon will be at level 20.

Once you revive Lileep you can breed it or evolve it at level 40 into its final stage of Cradily. Its HP (66), Defense (77) and Special Defense (87) are very nice while its Speed (23) is quite low. Lileep’s high Sp Atk (61) and low Atk (41) put it securely in the role of a Special Attacker. Its Grass/Rock typing makes it weak (x2) against Ice, Fighting, Bug and Steel moves but it is not super weak (x4) against anything.

Lileep in Adventure Mode

A freshly hatched Lileep will come with the moves Astonish and Constrict. A freshly revived Lileep will be at level 20 and have the moves: Astonish, Constrict, Acid and Ingrain. For purposes of this discussion we will assume a level 1 freshly hatched Lileep.

Being part Rock Lileep is known for having good defensive numbers. While its Attack score suffers its Special Attack does not. Because of this we will focus on using Lileep’s Special Attack when leveling up. Lileep has five Special moves in its level up pool and only two Physical ones. These two are known at hatching.

A level one Lileep does not get any sort of STAB move. With Acid at level 8 we need to wait until Lileep reaches level 15 before the first Grass move is learned; Ingrain. Not a damaging move, Ingrain does help keep Lileep in the battle by restoring lost HP at the end of each turn. Ingrains built-in defense against being forced to switch out is clearly wasted on Lileep.

The first hard choice comes at level 22 when Confuse Ray becomes available. Take it. Astonish is not a very good move and Acid already does more damage AND can hit both enemy Pokemon in a Doubles Battle. Amnesia at level 29 is a bit of a mixed bag. It is a Status move that increases Special Defense. Since Lileep already has a good Sp. Def. you might not want to bother with this move.

At level 36 comes the Status move Gastro Acid. This move negates the ability of the enemy Pokemon is can be extremely useful. I can’t even count the number of times this move has saved my bacon in the game!

At level 43 we encounter our first STAB move, Ancient Power. Not only does this move provide us with a Rock STAB move it also has a slight chance of improving all of your scores when used. No Lileep should be without this move. Level 50 brings us our Grass STAB move, Energy Ball.

Upon making it to level 57 Lileep get the option to learn the triple move known as Stockpile/Spit Up/Swallow. The up side to this move set is that it allows you to increase charge up power and then either use it to attack or to heal. The downside is that it is three moves out of your four allowed.

The very last move that Lileep can learn by leveling up is Wring Out at level 64. The damage for this move is based on the foe’s remaining HP.

Adventure Mode Move Breakdown:

Move 1: Astonish -> Confuse Ray
Move 2: Constrict -> Gastro Acid
Move 3: Acid -> Ancient Power
Move 4: Ingrain -> Energy Ball

Competitive Battling Lileep

Lileep is the basic form of a two-stage Pokemon. As such it does not see much play in competitive battling. It does see use in the Little Battle Tier.

Long Lasting Lileep

EV: Sp Def:252 / HP: 252 / Sp Atk: 8
Nature: Calm (SpD+/Atk-)

Move 1: Giga Drain (Grass 60/100 TM19)
Move 2: Substitute (Normal/Status TM90)
Move 3: Ancient Power (Rock 60/100 Lvl 43)
Move 4: Recover (Normal/Status Egg)

With this Pokemon you start by using substitute and then follow it up with either Recover or one of your offensive moves. In subsequent turns you can use Giga Drain to cause damage and restore lost HP. Ancient Power performs admirably as a secondary STAB move for those Pokemon that resist Giga Drain.

Remember, this Pokemon will not be facing the power hitters of the competitive battling scene. Some might wonder why I have not placed Toxic on this Lileep. The simple answer is that because Lileep will be running in the level 1 – 5 range the effectiveness of Toxic will be lowered to the point where it is not as effective as it is at higher levels.

Other types of Lileep

I request that if you have any other ideas for a Lileep move pool to please leave them in the comments below. As good move pools are suggested I will update this article accordingly.

Looking at Pokemon: Lileep

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