What it does
For 4 turns, the target's last move used becomes disabled. Fails if one of the target's moves is already disabled, if the target has not made a move, if the target no longer knows the move, or if the move was a Max or G-Max Move.
Who carrys it
7 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Disable.
The one that matters most is Ninetales-Alola,
which is on 6.5% of teams and carrys it on 15.2% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Normal move it is super effective against nothing, resisted by Rock and Steel, and does nothing at all to Ghost.
16 other Normal moves appear in this format: Protect, Fake Out, Weather Ball, Encore, Hyper Voice, Helping Hand and others.
Who could and does not
33 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Disable 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.
The most-played of those are Ceruledge, Gallade, Kangaskhan, Houndstone, Dragapult and Armarouge — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Disable accounts for an expected
0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
88th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs.
25% of that comes from Ninetales-Alola alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon.
Its carriers are mostly Ghost (4), Fairy (2) and Poison (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.
Ninetales-Alola
6.5%
15.2%
Mega Gengar
4.9%
38.7%
Sableye
3.4%
32.4%
Cofagrigus
0.21%
3.7%
Mega Banette
0.20%
7.1%
Aromatisse
0.14%
8.6%
Ariados
0.05%
18.9%