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Energy Ball

Grass · Special · 20 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Grass
Energy Ball
TypeGrass
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Whimsicott 23.5% 1.8% Venusaur 11.6% 8.7% Glimmora 5.4% 1.3% Mega Scovillain 4.9% 0.6% Primarina 3.1% 4% Chandelure 1.2% 10.6% Armarouge 0.81% 2.1% Mega Meganium 0.65% 0.2% Mega Sceptile 0.42% 61.3% Vileplume 0.40% 16% Gengar 0.30% 0.9% Mega Abomasnow 0.29% 36.1% Mega Drampa 0.27% 4.2% Alakazam 0.17% 7.1% Mr. Rime 0.15% 18.2% Hydrapple 0.14% 5.8% Reuniclus 0.07% 11.6% Roserade 0.04% 20.8% Castform 0.02% 10.2% Floette-Eternal 0.02% 49.2%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage.

At 90 base power it is the 19th strongest of the 39 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

20 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Energy Ball. The one that matters most is Whimsicott, which is on 23.5% of teams and carrys it on 1.8% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Grass move it is super effective against Ground, Rock and Water, resisted by Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass, Poison and Steel. 5 other Grass moves appear in this format: Solar Beam, Sleep Powder, Giga Drain, Leaf Storm, Leech Seed.

Who could and does not

59 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Energy Ball at all, against the 20 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 Sinistcha, Farigiraf, Vivillon, Sableye, Meowscarada and Tsareena — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Energy Ball accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 103rd most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 18% of that comes from Whimsicott alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Grass (9), Poison (5) and Fairy (4).

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 Whimsicott seated — Whimsicott brings Energy Ball to more teams than any of the other 19 Pokémon that carry it.

More

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