Blizzard
Ice · Special · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Blizzard | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ice |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 110 |
| Accuracy | 70% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Blizzard | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ice |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 110 |
| Accuracy | 70% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Has a 10% chance to freeze the target. If the weather is Snow, this move does not check accuracy.
At 110 base power it is the 7th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
11 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Blizzard. The one that matters most is Milotic, which is on 7.1% of teams and carrys it on 1.4% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Ice move it is super effective against Dragon, Flying, Grass and Ground, resisted by Fire, Ice, Steel and Water. 9 other Ice moves appear in this format: Ice Punch, Freeze-Dry, Ice Fang, Aurora Veil, Icy Wind, Ice Beam and others.
62 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Blizzard at all, against the 11 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 Basculegion, Pelipper, Toxapex, Politoed, Mamoswine and Dragonite — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Blizzard accounts for an expected 0.12 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 46th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 1% of that comes from Milotic alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Ice (7), Water (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.
