Mold Breaker
Ability · 10 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Mold Breaker | |
|---|---|
| Smogon rating | 3 |
| Pokémon running it in Reg M-B | 10 |
| Mold Breaker | |
|---|---|
| Smogon rating | 3 |
| Pokémon running it in Reg M-B | 10 |
This Pokemon's moves and their effects ignore certain Abilities of other Pokemon. The Abilities that can be negated are Armor Tail, Aroma Veil, Aura Break, Battle Armor, Big Pecks, Bulletproof, Clear Body, Contrary, Damp, Dazzling, Disguise, Dry Skin, Earth Eater, Filter, Flash Fire, Flower Gift, Flower Veil, Fluffy, Friend Guard, Fur Coat, Good as Gold, Grass Pelt, Guard Dog, Heatproof, Heavy Metal, Hyper Cutter, Ice Face, Ice Scales, Illuminate, Immunity, Inner Focus, Insomnia, Keen Eye, Leaf Guard, Levitate, Light Metal, Lightning Rod, Limber, Magic Bounce, Magma Armor, Marvel Scale, Mind's Eye, Mirror Armor, Motor Drive, Multiscale, Oblivious, Overcoat, Own Tempo, Pastel Veil, Punk Rock, Purifying Salt, Queenly Majesty, Sand Veil, Sap Sipper, Shell Armor, Shield Dust, Simple, Snow Cloak, Solid Rock, Soundproof, Sticky Hold, Storm Drain, Sturdy, Suction Cups, Sweet Veil, Tangled Feet, Telepathy, Tera Shell, Thermal Exchange, Thick Fat, Unaware, Vital Spirit, Volt Absorb, Water Absorb, Water Bubble, Water Veil, Well-Baked Body, White Smoke, Wind Rider, Wonder Guard, and Wonder Skin. This affects every other Pokemon on the field, whether or not it is a target of this Pokemon's move, and whether or not their Ability is beneficial to this Pokemon.
Smogon rates it 3 on their competitive scale, where 5 is format-defining and 0 is actively unhelpful.
10 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder run Mold Breaker. The one that matters most is Basculegion, which is on 30.2% of teams and runs it on 0% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
8 of the Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B have Mold Breaker in their ability list, and 10 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, Mold Breaker accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 16th most-brought of the 19 abilities this format runs. 0% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its users are mostly Water (3), Fighting (3) and Ghost (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.
