Disable
Normal · Status · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Disable | |
|---|---|
| Type | Normal |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Disable | |
|---|---|
| Type | Normal |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
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.
11 of the 277 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 6.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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, Swords Dance and others.
33 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Disable at all, against the 11 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, Kangaskhan, Armarouge, Gallade, Ninetales and Slowking-Galar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Disable accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 98th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 17% 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 (7), Ice (2) and Poison (2).
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.
