What are all the ways Gholdengo with Covert Cloak can be damaged?

Question

Am I correct that gholdengo with covert cloak should take damage only from hazards, pure base damage, and hail (not taking into account stuff like knock off and skill swap etc to remove it's ability or item)

Comments

Can't take damage from Hail, since it was reworked into Snow (does not do damage).

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Natdex showdown! Formats.

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There's also flame body, recoil damage, substitute, Jaboca berry, temporary trapping moves, and almost definitely a few other things that I can't remember right now. Some things, like self destruct and destiny bond, can cause instant fainting, and I don't know whether you count that as damage.
List of moves that "cost HP" (different from recoil): https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Moves_that_cost_HP_to_use

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You can also add Pokemon with Mold Breaker and the move Embargo

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Flame body would burn it. I didn't think about that. Thanks. Good to know.

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Although your not going to be using contact moves on gholdengo cuz he has a much better special attack

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Mycelium Might Toedscool/Toedscruel can also hit it with things like Leech Seed

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Just realized synchronize should be able to burn/paralyze it

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Anything with mold breaker can also status it.

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Or teravolt and turboblaze.

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By the way, sumwun, trapping moves should be secondary effects, substitute doesn't count here, and no, I don't count instant death damage.

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Covert cloak prevents those? I know shield dust and sheer force don't prevent them.

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also possibly rocky helmet? i know gholdengo is a special attacker but its possible

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If the enemy uses soak it can be poisoned by a pokémon with mold breaker

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Static, rough skin, iron Barbs but again, you shouldn't put contact moves on gholdengo.

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In almost any ability or balanced hackmons you can give it a different ability.

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Wow. There are a lot more than I thought. But also half of them are contact stuff so...

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Soak it and it takes damage from sandstorms.

Answer 1

Gholdengo with covert cloak can only be damaged by these things:

• Regular attacks that aren't normal, fighting or poison type
• Entry hazards
• The end of turn damaging effects of trapping moves like fire spin
• Recoil damage
• Sea of fire caused by fire + grass pledge
• Any Pokemon with the abilities mold breaker, teravolt, turboblaze, neutralising gas or Mycelium might can bypass gholdengo's ability to damage it with the status moves that Good as Gold protects from.
• Contact effects like Flame body, Iron barbs, Rough skin, Rocky helmet, Spiky shield, Aftermath, Effect spore, Burning bulwark
• Jacoba and Rowap berry
• Bad Dreams
• If gholdengo terastralises, then it can become a type vulnerable to being poisoned by toxic spikes or damaged by/immune to different things depending on the type, like sandstorm or poison point.
• Confusion

Hail was replaced by snow in scarlet and violet but if it was in the game then gholdengo would be damaged by it.

I don't think Synchronise will be able to burn/poison gholdengo because gholdengo doesn't learn any moves that can inflict those statuses.

Normally soak wouldn't work on gholdengo because it is a status move which Good as Gold makes it immune to.

Hope this helps, let me know if I missed anything.

Comments

Magic room can also be used to disable covert cloak and leave ghold vulnerable to secondary damage dealing effects, but that's basically the same as removing the item so I don't think it should count.