Brave Bird
Flying · Physical · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Brave Bird | |
|---|---|
| Type | Flying |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 15 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Brave Bird | |
|---|---|
| Type | Flying |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 15 |
| Priority | 0 |
If the target lost HP, the user takes recoil damage equal to 33% the HP lost by the target, rounded half up, but not less than 1 HP.
At 120 base power it is the 5th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
8 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Brave Bird. The one that matters most is Mega Staraptor, which is on 12.9% of teams and carrys it on 84.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Flying move it is super effective against Bug, Fighting and Grass, resisted by Electric, Rock and Steel. 4 other Flying moves appear in this format: Tailwind, Hurricane, Dual Wingbeat, Roost.
14 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Brave Bird at all, against the 8 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 Pelipper, Blaziken, Espathra and Quaquaval — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Brave Bird accounts for an expected 0.14 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 36th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 76% of that comes from Mega Staraptor alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Flying (7), Fighting (3) and Steel (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.
