Fake Tears
Dark · Status · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Fake Tears | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Fake Tears | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
Lowers the target's Special Defense by 2 stages.
11 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Fake Tears. The one that matters most is Whimsicott, which is on 22.5% of teams and carrys it on 5.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Dark move it is super effective against Ghost and Psychic, resisted by Dark, Fairy and Fighting. 8 other Dark moves appear in this format: Sucker Punch, Throat Chop, Nasty Plot, Knock Off, Dark Pulse, Taunt and others.
45 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Fake Tears 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 Sylveon, Ninetales-Alola, Maushold, Meowscarada, Corviknight and Tinkaton — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Fake Tears accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 114th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 67% of that comes from Whimsicott alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Fairy (3), Dark (3) and Electric (3).
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.
