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Drain Punch

Fighting · Physical · 21 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fighting
Drain Punch
TypeFighting
CategoryPhysical
Base power75
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Kommo-o 4.3% 1.6% Annihilape 2.4% 34.9% Mega Scrafty 1.1% 46.1% Mega Kangaskhan 1.1% 24.4% Mimikyu 0.84% 2.6% Mega Raichu X 0.66% 5.4% Palafin 0.45% 16.7% Mega Eelektross 0.40% 7.7% Mega Lucario 0.28% 11.5% Mega Chesnaught 0.26% 19.5% Conkeldurr 0.22% 88.4% Mega Golurk 0.21% 15.3% Mega Crabominable 0.18% 73.3% Toxicroak 0.18% 5.7% Mega Gallade 0.15% 57.7% Machamp 0.05% 18.8% Mega Sableye 0.04% 14.9% Mega Emboar 0.04% 74.9% Infernape 0.04% 11.4% Pangoro 0.03% 24% Slowbro-Galar 0.02% 7.5%

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 24th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

21 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Drain Punch. The one that matters most is Kommo-o, which is on 4.3% of teams and carrys it on 1.6% 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

43 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Drain Punch at all, against the 21 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, Clefable, Slowking-Galar, Vileplume and Audino — 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 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 102nd most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 3% of that comes from Kommo-o 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.

Where this goes next

Build

Open the builder with Kommo-o seated — Kommo-o brings Drain Punch to more teams than any of the other 20 Pokémon that carry it.

More

All 121 moves the format runs, ordered by how many copies an average team carries.