| Head Smash | |
|---|---|
| Type | Rock |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 150 |
| Accuracy | 80% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Hydreigon
4.5%
3.8%
Arcanine-Hisui
1.2%
78.8%
Rampardos
0.10%
6.9%
Tyrantrum
0.05%
29.9%
Aggron
0.01%
2%
If the target lost HP, the user takes recoil damage equal to 1/2 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up, but not less than 1 HP.
At 150 base power it is the 1st strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
5 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Head Smash. The one that matters most is Hydreigon, which is on 4.5% of teams and carrys it on 3.8% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Rock move it is super effective against Bug, Fire, Flying and Ice, resisted by Fighting, Ground and Steel. 5 other Rock moves appear in this format: Rock Slide, Wide Guard, Power Gem, Rock Tomb, Ancient Power.
11 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Head Smash at all, against the 5 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 Basculegion, Aegislash, Scrafty, Basculegion-F and Steelix — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Head Smash accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 124th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 15% of that comes from Hydreigon alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Rock (4) and Dragon (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.