Pokemon Sword & Shield: Best Grass Pokemon

3: Appletun – Best Grass Pokemon in Sword and Shield

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Appletun is the defensive-minded evolutionary path of everyone’s favorite delicious-looking Dragon apple Pokemon.

Appletun is similar to Ludicolo in a way in that it seems designed to annoy the crap out of opposing players with access to lots of recovery moves, and it also has great defensive typing and natural tankiness to take a beating.

You can go with either Thick Fat to add resistance to Fire and turn the crippling 4x Ice weakness into just a regular 2x one; or you can opt for the evolutionary line’s signature ability, Ripen, which doubles the effect of berries. Personally though we think it might be a better fit on the other Applin-line Pokemon…


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