Expanding Force
Psychic · Special · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Expanding Force | |
|---|---|
| Type | Psychic |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 80 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Expanding Force | |
|---|---|
| Type | Psychic |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 80 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
If the current terrain is Psychic Terrain and the user is grounded, this move hits all opposing Pokemon and has its power multiplied by 1.5.
At 80 base power it is the 29th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
11 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Expanding Force. The one that matters most is Mega Gardevoir, which is on 2.3% of teams and carrys it on 3.5% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Psychic move it is super effective against Fighting and Poison, resisted by Psychic and Steel, and does nothing at all to Dark. 11 other Psychic moves appear in this format: Trick Room, Psychic, Light Screen, Reflect, Calm Mind, Psychic Fangs and others.
25 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Expanding Force 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 Farigiraf, Gallade, Oranguru, Espathra, Metagross and Slowking-Galar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Expanding Force accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 122nd most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 7% of that comes from Mega Gardevoir alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Psychic (11), Fairy (2) and Fire (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.
