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Helping Hand

Normal · Status · 45 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Normal
Helping Hand
TypeNormal
CategoryStatus
Base power—
Accuracynever misses
PP20
Priority+5
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Incineroar 33.9% 9.5% Mega Charizard Y 30.6% 9.9% Farigiraf 20.2% 52.9% Mega Floette 15.0% 0.3% Pelipper 12.9% 2.3% Milotic 7.1% 2.3% Maushold 6.3% 8.6% Torkoal 6.1% 29.2% Politoed 3.9% 4.4% Tyranitar 2.4% 2% Tsareena 2.0% 7.8% Tinkaton 0.79% 7.5% Clefable 0.67% 33.7% Altaria 0.65% 7.8% Drampa 0.48% 8.2% Ninetales 0.32% 15.9% Gyarados 0.30% 29.1% Arcanine 0.27% 10.8% Umbreon 0.26% 28.3% Mr. Rime 0.23% 8.4% Reuniclus 0.22% 7.1% Wyrdeer 0.18% 15.2% Audino 0.18% 6.9% Glaceon 0.16% 5.9%

What it does

The power of the target's attack this turn is multiplied by 1.5 (this effect is stackable). Fails if there is no ally adjacent to the user or if the ally already moved this turn, but does not fail if the ally is using a two-turn move.

Who carrys it

45 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Helping Hand. The one that matters most is Incineroar, which is on 33.9% of teams and carrys it on 9.5% 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, Quick Attack and others.

Who could and does not

151 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Helping Hand at all, against the 45 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 Garchomp, Whimsicott, Sylveon, Venusaur, Ninetales-Alola and Annihilape — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Helping Hand accounts for an expected 0.21 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 25th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 15% of that comes from Incineroar alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Fire (7), Normal (7) and Psychic (7).

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.