**To use Toxicroak effectively in the current VGC format, leverage its Poison/Fighting type typing and build around its top-performing movesets.** Toxicroak appears as a prominent choice in the current Pokémon Champions format, with usage data pulled from competitive teams, tournament results and Showdown-ready pastes tracked by MetaVGC. This page brings together its most common moveset, nature, ability, item, teammates and type weaknesses so you can judge where Toxicroak fits in a VGC team.

The most common build highlights Dry Skin, Focus Sash and Jolly 1/32/0/0/1/32. Its frequent moves include Fake Out, Close Combat, Poison Jab, Protect, Sucker Punch, and Gunk Shot. Treat those choices as a data-backed starting point: they show what players are bringing, while EV spreads, Tera Type and the final move slot should still respond to your expected matchups.

Defensively, Toxicroak has important weaknesses to psychic 4x, flying 2x, ground 2x. That matters during teambuilding because a strong composition needs ways to cover those attacks without giving up offensive pressure. Partners such as Pelipper, Sinistcha, Archaludon, Farigiraf, and Blastoise-Mega appear often because they can add positioning, type coverage, speed control or safer switches into common checks.

MetaVGC tracks recent teams using Toxicroak. Open the Toxicroak teams page to compare complete structures, copy Showdown pastes and see how players combine Toxicroak with other Pokémon in the active format.