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Intimidate

Ability · 16 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Intimidate
Smogon rating3.5
Pokémon running it in Reg M-B16
PokémonTypes Its usageRuns it
Incineroar 33.9% 99.6% Mega Scrafty 2.4% 98.8% Staraptor 1.6% 95.4% Arcanine-Hisui 1.2% 14.2% Overqwil 0.62% 68.7% Gyarados 0.30% 97.3% Arcanine 0.27% 85.9% Tauros-Paldea-Aqua 0.26% 61.3% Krookodile 0.24% 92.3% Wyrdeer 0.18% 95.9% Mega Manectric 0.18% 100% Tauros-Paldea-Blaze 0.04% 56.6% Luxray 0.04% 97% Qwilfish 0.01% 91.8% Tauros-Paldea-Combat 0.01% 100% Tauros 0.01% 31.9%

What it does

On switch-in, this Pokemon lowers the Attack of opposing Pokemon by 1 stage. Pokemon with the Inner Focus, Oblivious, Own Tempo, or Scrappy Abilities and Pokemon behind a substitute are immune.

Smogon rates it 3.5 on their competitive scale, where 5 is format-defining and 0 is actively unhelpful.

Who runs it

16 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder run Intimidate. The one that matters most is Incineroar, which is on 33.9% of teams and runs it on 99.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

Who has it at all

17 of the Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B have Intimidate in their ability list, and 16 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, Intimidate accounts for an expected 0.40 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 1st most-brought of the 19 abilities this format runs. 85% of that comes from Incineroar alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s ability rather than the format’s. Its users are mostly Fire (4), Dark (4) and Fighting (4).

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.