Corviknight: Best Moveset, Weaknesses & Counters, Stats, and Evolution

The world of Pokémon has been a growing phenomenon since 1996, when the first pair of video games came out in stores. Pokémon started off as a video game series and although new creatures are primarily introduced in the video games, the anime series has become as popular as the video games. As of December 2021, there are almost 900 individual Pokémon identified by the PokéDex and in this article, we are going to tell you everything you need to know about one of them – Corviknight.

Corviknight is a dual Flying and Steel-type Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII. It is the third and final evolution of Rookidee; Rookidee evolves to Corvisquire starting at Level 18, and Corvisquire, in turn, evolves into Corviknight starting at Level 38. By using the Dynamax Band, it can evolve into Gigantamax Corviknight. In the anime series, Corviknight is a very useful Pokémon used by people for travel. It is weak to Fire-, and Electric-type moves, and is super effective against Fairy-, Grass-, Bug- and Fighting-type Pokémon.

In this article, we are going to tell you all the information you’ll need if you want to breed a Corviknight in any of the games. You’ll find out about its type, its powers, its strengths and weaknesses, its evolutions, and its moves. We’re going to focus on both the core games, as well as other popular video games based on the Pokémon franchise.

Best moveset

While it is still not in the Pokémon GO videogame, the best moves for your Corvinight, as we can deduce from the currently available in-game moves list, are going to be Steel Wing and Brave Bird if you’re battling Pokémon in Gyms. Namely, this moveset should you the highest total DPS and should, likewise, be the best moveset for PVP battles. The official description for Steel Wing reveals the following: “The target is hit with wings of steel. This may also raise the user’s Defense stat”; as for Brave Bird, the attack is described as follows: “The user tucks in its wings and charges from a low altitude. This also damages the user quite a lot.”

Weaknesses and Counters

As a dual Flying and Steel-type Pokémon, Corviknight is super effective against Fairy-, Bug-, Grass- and Fighting-type Pokémon. It is weak against Fire-, and Electric-type Pokémon. It is immune to Poison- and Ground-type attacks. It deals and receives normal damage from Fighting-, Rock-, Ghost-, Water-, Ice-, and Dark-type Pokémon.

Powers and abilities

Covriknight’s Stats, based on the most recent available data, are:

Stats	Base Stats	Min-	Min	Max	Max+	Min-	Min	Max	Max+
HP	173		205		337		400
Attack	96	107	139	152	189	210	273	300
Defense	112	125	157	172	221	246	309	339
Special Attack	66	73	105	115	127	142	205	225
Special Defense	94	105	137	150	185	206	269	295
Speed	78	87	119	130	153	170	233	256

Although not released yet, thanks to data miners, we know that in Pokémon GO, Corviknight has a Base Stamina of 221, a Base Attack of 163, and a Base Defense of 192.

As for its abilities, they are:

• Pressure: By putting pressure on the opposing Pokémon, it raises their PP usage. (or)
• Unnerve: Unnerves opposing Pokémon and makes them unable to eat Berries.
• Mirror Armor: Bounces back only the stat-lowering effects that the Pokémon receives. (Hidden Ability)

Evolutions

Corviknight is the third and final evolution of Rookidee. Rookidee is a Generation VIII Pokémon that first evolves to Corvisquire at Level 18, after which you simply need to level it up to Level 38 to get Corviknight. Corviknight doesn’t have a Mega Evolution, but it does have a Gigantamax form which lasts for three minutes and is obtained while using the Dynamax Band on Corviknight. This Pokémon doesn’t have any Regional Variants.

As of December 2021, Corviknight is still not available in Pokémon GO, so we’ll update these information once this Pokémon is actually released in the game.

Moves

As of Generation VIII, the movies that Corviknight can learn are:

• Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Corviknight
• Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Corviknight
• × indicates a move that cannot be used in Generation VIII

By leveling up

Level	Move	Type	Cat.	Pwr.	Acc.	PP
1	Steel Wing	Steel	Physical	70	90%	25
1	Iron Defense	Steel	Status	—	—%	15
1	Metal Sound	Steel	Status	—	85%	40
1	Peck	Flying	Physical	35	100%	35
1	Leer	Normal	Status	—	100%	30
1	Power Trip	Dark	Physical	20	100%	10
1	Hone Claws	Dark	Status	—	—%	15
Evo.	Steel Wing	Steel	Physical	70	90%	25
12	Fury Attack	Normal	Physical	15	85%	20
16	Pluck	Flying	Physical	60	100%	20
22	Taunt	Dark	Status	—	100%	20
28	Scary Face	Normal	Status	—	100%	10
34	Drill Peck	Flying	Physical	80	100%	20
42	Swagger	Normal	Status	—	85%	15
50	Brave Bird	Flying	Physical	120	100%	15

By TM

Move	Type	Cat.	Pwr.	Acc.	PP
TM06	Fly	Flying	Physical	90	95%	15
TM08	Hyper Beam	Normal	Special	150	90%	5
TM09	Giga Impact	Normal	Physical	150	90%	5
TM16	Screech	Normal	Status	—	85%	40
TM17	Light Screen	Psychic	Status	—	—%	30
TM18	Reflect	Psychic	Status	—	—%	20
TM21	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—%	10
TM23	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100%	25
TM24	Snore	Normal	Special	50	100%	15
TM25	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
TM26	Scary Face	Normal	Status	—	100%	10
TM30	Steel Wing	Steel	Physical	70	90%	25
TM31	Attract	Normal	Status	—	100%	15
TM39	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100%	20
TM40	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—%	20
TM42	Revenge	Fighting	Physical	60	100%	10
TM47	Fake Tears	Dark	Status	—	100%	20
TM56	U-turn	Bug	Physical	70	100%	20
TM57	Payback	Dark	Physical	50	100%	10
TM58	Assurance	Dark	Physical	60	100%	10
TM76	Round	Normal	Special	60	100%	15
TM79	Retaliate	Normal	Physical	70	100%	5
TM95	Air Slash	Flying	Special	75	95%	15
TR01	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	85	100%	15
TR12	Agility	Psychic	Status	—	—%	30
TR13	Focus Energy	Normal	Status	—	—%	30
TR20	Substitute	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
TR21	Reversal	Fighting	Physical	—	100%	15
TR26	Endure	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
TR27	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
TR37	Taunt	Dark	Status	—	100%	20
TR46	Iron Defense	Steel	Status	—	—%	15
TR48	Bulk Up	Fighting	Status	—	—%	20
TR66	Brave Bird	Flying	Physical	120	100%	15
TR68	Nasty Plot	Dark	Status	—	—%	20
TR70	Flash Cannon	Steel	Special	80	100%	10
TR74	Iron Head	Steel	Physical	80	100%	15
TR79	Heavy Slam	Steel	Physical	—	100%	10
TR85	Work Up	Normal	Status	—	—%	30
TR89	Hurricane	Flying	Special	110	70%	10
TR99	Body Press	Fighting	Physical	80	100%	10

By transfer from another generation

Since Corviknight was introduced in the most recent Generation, there is no way he could learn moves by transferring from another generation.

Although not released yet, thanks to data miners, we know that in Pokémon GO, Corviknight can use Steel Wing and Air Slash as Fast Attacks, and Brave Bird, Drill Peck, and Iron Head as Charge Attacks. When the Pokémon actually gets released in-game, this list is almost surely going to get expanded, but we’ll have to wait for more info on that.