#0934 · Paldea · Generation 9

Garganacl

Rock Salt Pokémon · Rock-type

Garganacl is a Rock-type Pokémon, the Rock Salt Pokémon, number 934 (#0934) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 9 and comes from the Paldea region. It is 2.3 m tall and weighs 240 kg.

Garganacl is the Rock Salt Pokémon, a towering salt giant whose mineral-rich salt is said to heal even severe wounds. Other Pokémon crowd around it just to lick a little.

How to pronounce Garganacl

Garganacl is pronounced gar-guh-NAK-ul. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Garganacl said out loud:

In Japanese it is キョジオーン (Kyojiohn).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Garganacl is a large two-legged Pokémon of compact rock salt and layered rock, 2.3 m (7'07") tall and 240 kg (529.1 lbs). Its shoulders are tall, three-stepped blocks of white salt that cover the sides of its head, with a taller block behind. Its blocky arms and legs are striped like rock strata, its three-fingered hands hang close to the ground, and its torso is tiny next to its limbs. Square patches of salt dot its body.

Behaviour

Garganacl is gentle with the hurt. The Pokédex says it rubs its fingertips together over injured Pokémon, sprinkling salt that quickly heals even severe wounds. Many Pokémon crowd round hoping to lick its mineral-rich salt, and the Legends: Z-A Pokédex adds that rock salt taken from it helps keep people healthy.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat. In Scarlet and Violet, Serebii lists wild Garganacl only in Area Zero, a late-game area.

Powers

It learns Hammer Arm the moment it evolves, starts with Block, Wide Guard and Rock Blast, picks up Salt Cure at level 24, and later gains Stone Edge, Earthquake and Explosion. Its Abilities are Purifying Salt and Sturdy, with Clear Body hidden. With 100 HP and a base Defense of 130, the highest of any Rock type introduced in Generation IX, it is a huge, slow wall that is hard to knock down.

Name origin

Garganacl may combine gargantuan with NaCl, and it might also borrow from tabernacle. The Japanese name is Kyojiohn (キョジオーン), which may combine kyojin (giant), shio (salt) and geo- (earth).

Design inspiration

Garganacl appears to be based on rock-salt crystals and strata. Its large humanoid build, and its gentle, earthy role, may recall Hebrew golems, and its stepped shoulders resemble a ziggurat or the Pyramids of Güímar, or perhaps the hopper crystals found in coarse salt. Its healing may play on 'curing', which means both preserving and healing. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Naclstack evolves into Garganacl at level 38, and Garganacl is the final form.

In the games

Garganacl turns up in 5-star and 6-star Tera Raid Battles in Scarlet and Violet, where it debuted. In Legends: Z-A it is wild only in the Mega Dimension DLC's Hyperspace Lumiose, in 4-star Rock-type zones and a 5-star special zone.

In the anime

Sidian's Garganacl debuted in 'Reunion at the Ancient Castle!', and it made its first Terastallization, into the Rock type, in 'Infiltrating the System! Naranja Academy in Danger!'.

Fun facts

• Its cry is a grunted version of three notes from the Pokémon Center jingle, which Bulbapedia suggests may refer to its healing.
• In Legends: Z-A the move it learns on evolving is the Fighting-type Dynamic Punch.
• A challenge on commonly mispronounced names at a 2026 Latin American tournament gave its name as 'GAHR-ga-NAK-al'.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Garganacl (Pokémon) · Serebii: Garganacl (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 100
• Attack: 100
• Defense: 130
• Sp. Atk: 45
• Sp. Def: 90
• Speed: 35

Garganacl’s base stat total is 500. Its highest stat is Defense.

Type matchups

What is Garganacl weak to?

Garganacl takes extra damage from Water (2×), Grass (2×), Fighting (2×), Ground (2×), Steel (2×) moves.

It resists Normal (½×), Fire (½×), Poison (½×), Flying (½×).

Evolution

What does Garganacl evolve from?

Garganacl evolves from Naclstack at level 38.

Garganacl is the final stage of its evolution family.

The whole family: Nacli, Naclstack, Garganacl.

• Nacli evolves into Naclstack at level 24.

Abilities

• Purifying Salt: Protects from status conditions and halves damage from Ghost-type moves.
• Sturdy: Prevents being KOed from full HP, leaving 1 HP instead. Protects against the one-hit KO moves regardless of HP.
• Clear Body (hidden ability): Prevents stats from being lowered by other Pokémon.

Moves

Moves Garganacl learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

“Evo” means Garganacl learns the move the moment it evolves: Hammer Arm.

TM moves (46)

Garganacl can learn 46 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Protect, Facade, Bulldoze, Mud Shot, Rock Tomb, Fling, Avalanche, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Sandstorm, Dig, Brick Break, Zen Headbutt, Body Slam, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Sleep Talk, Rock Blast, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Rock Slide, Body Press, Flash Cannon, Iron Head, Power Gem, Substitute, Iron Defense, Stealth Rock, Heavy Slam, Helping Hand, Earth Power, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Gravity, Smack Down, Focus Punch, Double-Edge, Meteor Beam, Curse, Hard Press.

Egg moves (4), which Nacli can hatch knowing:Ancient Power, Curse, Fissure, Power Gem.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Mineral.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium Slow (1,059,860 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 Defense effort values.
• Base experience yield: 250.

Pokédex entries

Many Pokémon gather around Garganacl, hoping to lick at its mineral-rich salt. (Violet)

Garganacl will rub its fingertips together and sprinkle injured Pokémon with salt. Even severe wounds will promptly heal afterward. (Scarlet)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Tallest Rock type in Gen 9: 2.3 m.
• Highest HP among Rock types in Gen 9: 100, shared with 1 other.
• Highest Defense among Rock types in Gen 9: 130.
• Taller than 92% of all Pokémon (2.3 m).
• Heavier than 94% of all Pokémon (240 kg).
• Base stat total 500, ranked #278 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Defense, ranked #38 of 1,025.
• One of 74 Rock-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 29 of 120 Pokémon introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 59 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Garganacl (Pokémon), Serebii: Garganacl (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (gar-guh-NAK-ul): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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