Focus Blast
Fighting · Special · 9 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Focus Blast | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighting |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 70% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Focus Blast | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighting |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 70% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Has a 10% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage.
At 120 base power it is the 5th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
9 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Focus Blast. The one that matters most is Gholdengo, which is on 9.2% of teams and carrys it on 2.3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Fighting move it is super effective against Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel, resisted by Bug, Fairy, Flying, Poison and Psychic, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 12 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Aura Sphere, Quick Guard, Bulk Up and others.
89 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Focus Blast at all, against the 9 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 Kingambit, Incineroar, Sneasler, Grimmsnarl, Annihilape and Hydreigon — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Focus Blast accounts for an expected 0.07 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 63rd most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 3% of that comes from Gholdengo alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Dragon (3), Ghost (2) and Electric (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.
