Levitate
Ability · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Levitate | |
|---|---|
| Smogon rating | 3.5 |
| Pokémon running it in Reg M-B | 8 |
| Levitate | |
|---|---|
| Smogon rating | 3.5 |
| Pokémon running it in Reg M-B | 8 |
This Pokemon is immune to Ground-type attacks and the effects of Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Sticky Web, and the Arena Trap Ability. The effects of Gravity, Ingrain, Smack Down, Thousand Arrows, and Iron Ball nullify the immunity. Thousand Arrows can hit this Pokemon as if it did not have this Ability.
Smogon rates it 3.5 on their competitive scale, where 5 is format-defining and 0 is actively unhelpful.
8 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder run Levitate. The one that matters most is Mega Delphox, which is on 8.6% of teams and runs it on 100% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
9 of the Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B have Levitate in their ability list, and 8 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.
Across the ladder, Levitate accounts for an expected 0.18 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 5th most-brought of the 19 abilities this format runs. 48% of that comes from Mega Delphox alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its users are mostly Electric (5), Fire (2) and Psychic (2).
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.
