What it does
Raises the target's Attack and Defense by 1 stage. Fails if there is no ally adjacent to the user.
Who carrys it
6 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Coaching.
The one that matters most is Sneasler,
which is on 31.4% of teams and carrys it on 7.5% 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.
11 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Focus Blast, Quick Guard, Aura Sphere and others.
Who could and does not
22 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Coaching 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 Kommo-o, Annihilape, Gallade, Decidueye-Hisui, Conkeldurr and Toxicroak — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Coaching accounts for an expected
0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
100th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
94% of that comes from Sneasler alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Fighting (6) and Fire (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.
Sneasler
31.4%
7.5%
Blaziken
0.21%
43.4%
Scrafty
0.15%
11.2%
Mega Hawlucha
0.15%
19.9%
Infernape
0.04%
24.2%
Passimian
0.01%
19.1%