What it does
No additional effect.
At 40 base power it is the
36th strongest of the 39 damaging physical
moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +1, before anything at +0 or below.
Who carrys it
7 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Bullet Punch.
The one that matters most is Mega Metagross,
which is on 3.9% of teams and carrys it on 33.7% 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.
4 other Steel moves appear in this format: Iron Head, Flash Cannon, Heavy Slam, Iron Defense.
Who could and does not
7 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Bullet Punch at all,
against the 7 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is
the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it.
Every measured Pokémon that can learn it does run it, which is rare and says the move is close to mandatory on anything with access.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Bullet Punch accounts for an expected
0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
90th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
40% of that comes from Mega Metagross alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon.
Its carriers are mostly Fighting (5), 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
3.9%
33.7%
Scizor
1.8%
99.9%
Mega Lucario
0.34%
36.2%
Toxicroak
0.18%
1.8%
Mega Medicham
0.14%
12.6%
Machamp
0.05%
50.8%
Pangoro
0.03%
47.3%