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Inner Focus

Ability · 9 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Inner Focus
Smogon rating1
Pokémon running it in Reg M-B9

What it does

This Pokemon cannot be made to flinch. This Pokemon is immune to the effect of the Intimidate Ability.

Smogon rates it 1 on their competitive scale, where 5 is format-defining and 0 is actively unhelpful.

Who runs it

9 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder run Inner Focus. The one that matters most is Dragonite, which is on 3.4% of teams and runs it on 83.4% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

Who has it at all

9 of the Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B have Inner Focus in their ability list, and 9 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, Inner Focus accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 12th most-brought of the 18 abilities this format runs. 65% of that comes from Dragonite alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s ability rather than the format’s. Its users are mostly Fighting (3), Psychic (3) and Normal (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.

Where this goes next

Build

Open the builder with Dragonite seated — Dragonite brings Inner Focus to more teams than any of the other 8 Pokémon that run it.

More

All 18 abilities the format runs, ordered by how many copies an average team carries.