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High Horsepower

Ground · Physical · 25 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Ground
High Horsepower
TypeGround
CategoryPhysical
Base power95
Accuracy95%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Swampert 8.5% 29.2% Mega Tyranitar 7.3% 16.3% Excadrill 4.2% 57.1% Mamoswine 2.9% 78.7% Mudsdale 0.63% 31.7% Snorlax 0.50% 33.6% Mega Golurk 0.34% 13% Krookodile 0.24% 78.1% Mega Heracross 0.19% 2% Avalugg-Hisui 0.13% 0.9% Mega Steelix 0.13% 75.7% Rhyperior 0.12% 74.1% Hippowdon 0.11% 61.7% Mega Pinsir 0.11% 1.2% Orthworm 0.11% 4.2% Gliscor 0.10% 42.3% Diggersby 0.05% 69.1% Torterra 0.05% 13.4% Tyrantrum 0.05% 8.9% Machamp 0.04% 12.5% Sandaconda 0.03% 17.2% Aggron 0.01% 1.1% Falinks 0.01% 3.2% Tauros-Paldea-Combat 0.01% 9.9%

What it does

No additional effect.

At 95 base power it is the 12th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

25 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry High Horsepower. The one that matters most is Mega Swampert, which is on 8.5% of teams and carrys it on 29.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Ground move it is super effective against Electric, Fire, Poison, Rock and Steel, resisted by Bug and Grass, and does nothing at all to Flying. 3 other Ground moves appear in this format: Earthquake, Earth Power, Stomping Tantrum.

Who could and does not

35 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn High Horsepower at all, against the 25 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 Farigiraf, Tauros-Paldea-Aqua, Conkeldurr, Wyrdeer, Tauros-Paldea-Blaze and Chesnaught — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, High Horsepower accounts for an expected 0.09 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 50th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 27% of that comes from Mega Swampert alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Ground (13), Rock (5) and Steel (4).

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.