Best Nature For Rapidash

Rapidash is best selected for offensive teams and pairs well with other offensive Pokemon like Crustle and Marowak, which enjoy Rapidash's Fire. Explore Rapidash's strengths, abilities, and strategies in competitive battles with the Smogon Strategy Pokedex. This thread is for Kantonian Rapidash.

For Galarian Rapidash, please go here. If you have a good competitive moveset for Rapidash, post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for any of its pre-evolutions can also be shared on this thread.

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Best Natures When choosing a Nature, the best option is most often to focus on choosing a Nature that boosts one of their highest stats and lowers the stat that you will use least often. Both Ponyta and Rapidash have a high speed stat and low Special Attack, which means the best Nature for both is Jolly. Jolly nature is also ideal since Rapidash's Speed tier is one of its best traits and it can't afford to be outsped with its middling bulk.

Flash Fire gives Rapidash very safe switch. Go with attack. 100 base stat attack is good and you can learn moves like play rough for fairy stab, high horse power for steel/poison coverage, psycho cut for psychic stab, and lots of support moves as well.

Pokédex entry for #78 Rapidash containing stats, moves learned, evolution chain, location and more! VGC Rapidash Competitive Movesets can be found here. Find various EV spreads, find the best nature for Rapidash in Diamond/Pearl along with competitive movesets.

Submitted by /u/freezybreez Nature To be completed. Pokemon Legends Arceus Rapidash is a Fire Type Fire Horse Pokémon with a Medium Fast growth rate and a 2 Speed EV Yield. Rapidash can be found with Run Away, Flash Fire and Flame Body as an Ability; we recommend the Hasty Nature, based on 500 total combined Base Stats in PLA.