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Brick Break

Fighting · Physical · 18 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fighting
Brick Break
TypeFighting
CategoryPhysical
Base power75
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Kingambit 36.8% 0.7% Mega Tyranitar 7.3% 1.7% Mega Mawile 5.2% 10.2% Excadrill 4.2% 0.5% Mega Kangaskhan 3.5% 22.8% Meowscarada 2.8% 1.2% Tinkaton 0.79% 4.2% Scrafty 0.46% 6.3% Scizor 0.45% 3.2% Metagross 0.32% 5.1% Mega Barbaracle 0.21% 1.8% Mega Heracross 0.19% 2.1% Mega Beedrill 0.16% 2.5% Mega Falinks 0.12% 8.3% Rampardos 0.10% 11% Pikachu 0.04% 7.4% Passimian 0.03% 10.3% Aggron 0.01% 1.1%

What it does

If this attack does not miss, the effects of Reflect, Light Screen, and Aurora Veil end for the target's side of the field before damage is calculated.

At 75 base power it is the 27th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

18 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Brick Break. The one that matters most is Kingambit, which is on 36.8% of teams and carrys it on 0.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Fighting move it is super effective against Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel, resisted by Bug, Fairy, Flying, Poison and Psychic, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 12 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Aura Sphere, Quick Guard, Focus Blast and others.

Who could and does not

94 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Brick Break at all, against the 18 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 Incineroar, Garchomp, Sneasler, Archaludon, Grimmsnarl and Annihilape — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Brick Break accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 113th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 14% of that comes from Kingambit alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Steel (7), Fighting (5) and Dark (4).

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.