What it does
Has a 10% chance to raise the user's Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed by 1 stage.
At 60 base power it is the
34th strongest of the 39 damaging special
moves that appear in this format.
Who carrys it
6 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Ancient Power.
The one that matters most is Mega Charizard Y,
which is on 26.5% of teams and carrys it on 25.6% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Rock move it is super effective against Bug, Fire, Flying and Ice, resisted by Fighting, Ground and Steel.
5 other Rock moves appear in this format: Rock Slide, Wide Guard, Power Gem, Head Smash, Rock Tomb.
Who could and does not
26 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Ancient Power at all,
against the 6 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is
the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it.
The most-played of those are Glimmora, Tyranitar, Aerodactyl, Swampert, Mamoswine and Kleavor — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Ancient Power accounts for an expected
0.08 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
57th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
84% of that comes from Mega Charizard Y alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Fire (4) and Flying (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.
Mega Charizard Y
26.5%
25.6%
Torkoal
4.8%
2%
Mega Camerupt
1.4%
72.7%
Mega Meganium
0.65%
1.3%
Aurorus
0.14%
81.8%
Charizard
0.02%
23.1%