Gunk Shot
Poison · Physical · 10 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Gunk Shot | |
|---|---|
| Type | Poison |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 80% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Gunk Shot | |
|---|---|
| Type | Poison |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 80% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Has a 30% chance to poison the target.
At 120 base power it is the 8th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
10 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Gunk Shot. The one that matters most is Sneasler, which is on 20.9% of teams and carrys it on 6.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Poison move it is super effective against Fairy and Grass, resisted by Ghost, Ground, Poison and Rock, and does nothing at all to Steel. 3 other Poison moves appear in this format: Sludge Bomb, Poison Jab, Toxic.
32 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Gunk Shot at all, against the 10 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 Pelipper, Toxapex, Annihilape, Snorlax, Slowking-Galar and Gengar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Gunk Shot accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 116th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 87% of that comes from Sneasler alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Poison (7), Dark (3) and Fighting (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.
