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Feint

Normal · Physical · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Normal
Feint
TypeNormal
CategoryPhysical
Base power30
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority+2
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Maushold 6.3% 35.8% Talonflame 3.5% 4.3% Mega Scizor 1.2% 2.6% Tinkaton 0.79% 8.9% Weavile 0.60% 10.1% Kleavor 0.51% 12.4% Mega Pinsir 0.11% 92.9% Medicham 0.10% 16.3%

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 41st strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +2, before anything at +1 or below.

Who carrys it

8 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Feint. The one that matters most is Maushold, which is on 6.3% of teams and carrys it on 35.8% 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, Helping Hand and others.

Who could and does not

29 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Feint at all, against the 8 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 Sneasler, Sableye, Gallade, Blaziken, Raichu and Goodra-Hisui — 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 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 104th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 82% of that comes from Maushold alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Bug (3), Flying (2) and Steel (2).

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.