Heavy Slam
Steel · Physical · 10 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Heavy Slam | |
|---|---|
| Type | Steel |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Heavy Slam | |
|---|---|
| Type | Steel |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
The power of this move depends on (user's weight / target's weight), rounded down. Power is equal to 120 if the result is 5 or more, 100 if 4, 80 if 3, 60 if 2, and 40 if 1 or less. Damage doubles and no accuracy check is done if the target has used Minimize while active.
10 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Heavy Slam. The one that matters most is Hippowdon, which is on 0.45% of teams and carrys it on 54.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Steel move it is super effective against Fairy, Ice and Rock, resisted by Electric, Fire, Steel and Water. 4 other Steel moves appear in this format: Iron Head, Flash Cannon, Bullet Punch, Iron Defense.
32 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Heavy Slam 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 Archaludon, Gholdengo, Torkoal, Tyranitar, Corviknight and Mamoswine — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Heavy Slam accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 119th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 20% of that comes from Hippowdon alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Ground (5), Steel (5) and Rock (3).
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.
