What it does
No additional effect.
At 40 base power it is the
40th strongest of the 42 damaging physical
moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +1, before anything at +0 or below.
Who carrys it
6 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Bullet Punch.
The one that matters most is Mega Metagross,
which is on 7.3% of teams and carrys it on 31.3% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Steel move it is super effective against Fairy, Ice and Rock, resisted by Electric, Fire, Steel and Water.
3 other Steel moves appear in this format: Iron Head, Flash Cannon, Iron Defense.
Who could and does not
7 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Bullet Punch 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 Toxicroak — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Bullet Punch accounts for an expected
0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
94th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs.
63% of that comes from Mega Metagross alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Fighting (4), Steel (3) and Psychic (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 Metagross
7.3%
31.3%
Mega Scizor
1.2%
99.9%
Mega Lucario
0.43%
34.3%
Mega Medicham
0.07%
8.4%
Machamp
0.04%
27.7%
Pangoro
0.02%
23.3%