What it does
This Pokemon's moves that match one of its types have a same-type attack bonus (STAB) of 2 instead of 1.5.
Smogon rates it
4 on their competitive scale, where 5 is format-defining and 0 is
actively unhelpful.
Who runs it
6 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder run Adaptability.
The one that matters most is Basculegion,
which is on 30.2% of teams and runs it on 93.3% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
Who has it at all
3 of the Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B have Adaptability in
their ability list, and 6 of those are played often enough to measure. An
ability is not a choice the way a move or an item is — most Pokémon that have it have no
alternative worth taking — so the gap here is about what sees play, not about what is preferred.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Adaptability accounts for an expected
0.31 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
3rd most-brought of the 19 abilities this format runs.
92% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s ability rather than the format’s.
Its users are mostly Poison (3), Water (2) and Ghost (2).
Where these numbers come from
Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is
the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than
written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the
team builder or the damage calculator.
Basculegion
30.2%
93.3%
Mega Glimmora
1.8%
100%
Basculegion-F
0.36%
43.2%
Mega Lucario
0.31%
100%
Mega Beedrill
0.16%
100%
Dragalge
0.06%
97.4%