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Feint

Normal · Physical · 17 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Normal
Feint
TypeNormal
CategoryPhysical
Base power30
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority+2
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Sneasler 31.4% 10.1% Mega Raichu Y 11.0% 0.8% Maushold 5.5% 35.9% Talonflame 2.1% 5.9% Mega Scizor 0.89% 2.5% Weavile 0.81% 25.7% Tinkaton 0.56% 8.9% Gliscor 0.43% 33.5% Kleavor 0.33% 28% Goodra-Hisui 0.20% 3.5% Raichu 0.18% 15.1% Toxicroak 0.18% 4% Mega Houndoom 0.13% 1.4% Mega Heracross 0.10% 5.4% Mega Pinsir 0.09% 74.7% Pikachu 0.07% 26.9% Goodra 0.05% 37.1%

What it does

If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's Baneful Bunker, Detect, King's Shield, Protect, or Spiky Shield for this turn, allowing other Pokemon to attack the target normally. If the target's side is protected by Crafty Shield, Mat Block, Quick Guard, or Wide Guard, that protection is also broken for this turn and other Pokemon may attack the target's side normally.

At 30 base power it is the 38th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +2, before anything at +1 or below.

Who carrys it

17 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Feint. The one that matters most is Sneasler, which is on 31.4% of teams and carrys it on 10.1% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Normal move it is super effective against nothing, resisted by Rock and Steel, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 16 other Normal moves appear in this format: Protect, Fake Out, Weather Ball, Encore, Hyper Voice, Swords Dance and others.

Who could and does not

29 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Feint at all, against the 17 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 Sableye, Gallade, Blaziken, Skarmory, Lucario and Medicham — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Feint accounts for an expected 0.06 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 71st most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 53% of that comes from Sneasler alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Bug (4), Fighting (3) and Electric (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 Sneasler seated — Sneasler brings Feint to more teams than any of the other 16 Pokémon that carry it.

More

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