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Drain Punch

Fighting · Physical · 22 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fighting
Drain Punch
TypeFighting
CategoryPhysical
Base power75
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Annihilape 4.8% 34.7% Mega Kangaskhan 3.5% 13.7% Kommo-o 3.4% 1.5% Mega Scrafty 2.4% 57.1% Mega Raichu X 0.78% 6% Mega Eelektross 0.77% 7.1% Mimikyu 0.57% 4.5% Palafin 0.48% 8.2% Mega Golurk 0.34% 13.7% Mega Chesnaught 0.31% 19% Mega Sableye 0.29% 10.9% Conkeldurr 0.25% 61.8% Mega Crabominable 0.23% 74.8% Mega Gallade 0.11% 11.1% Infernape 0.07% 9.7% Mega Medicham 0.07% 13.2% Toxicroak 0.06% 5.7% Mega Emboar 0.05% 25.5% Slowbro-Galar 0.05% 9.7% Passimian 0.03% 21.9% Garbodor 0.03% 48.1% Pangoro 0.02% 25%

What it does

The user recovers 1/2 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3x normal, rounded half down.

At 75 base power it is the 26th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

22 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Drain Punch. The one that matters most is Annihilape, which is on 4.8% of teams and carrys it on 34.7% 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. 12 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Aura Sphere, Quick Guard, Focus Blast and others.

Who could and does not

43 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Drain Punch at all, against the 22 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 Incineroar, Grimmsnarl, Vileplume, Clefable, Raichu and Slowking-Galar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Drain Punch accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 81st most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 39% of that comes from Annihilape alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Fighting (13), Ghost (4) and Dark (3).

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.