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Ice Beam

Ice · Special · 27 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Ice
Ice Beam
TypeIce
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Pelipper 12.9% 1.5% Mega Blastoise 8.7% 14.1% Milotic 7.1% 23.3% Politoed 3.9% 25.6% Primarina 1.7% 12.2% Vanilluxe 0.84% 3.2% Araquanid 0.63% 6.7% Mega Drampa 0.42% 3.8% Basculegion-F 0.36% 24.8% Greninja 0.35% 47.3% Slowking-Galar 0.32% 31.6% Empoleon 0.18% 39.3% Glaceon 0.16% 5.4% Vaporeon 0.13% 51.8% Rampardos 0.10% 33.2% Clawitzer 0.08% 3.5% Swampert 0.06% 21% Slowbro-Galar 0.05% 15% Slowbro 0.05% 7.1% Starmie 0.04% 57.3% Goodra 0.04% 16.7% Sharpedo 0.03% 4.4% Abomasnow 0.03% 10.8% Mega Absol 0.02% 16.1%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to freeze the target.

At 90 base power it is the 17th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

27 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Ice Beam. The one that matters most is Pelipper, which is on 12.9% of teams and carrys it on 1.5% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Ice move it is super effective against Dragon, Flying, Grass and Ground, resisted by Fire, Ice, Steel and Water. 9 other Ice moves appear in this format: Ice Punch, Blizzard, Freeze-Dry, Ice Fang, Aurora Veil, Icy Wind and others.

Who could and does not

64 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Ice Beam at all, against the 27 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, Ninetales-Alola, Toxapex, Mamoswine, Dragonite and Tyranitar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Ice Beam accounts for an expected 0.05 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 80th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 4% of that comes from Pelipper alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Water (16), Psychic (4) and Ice (3).

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.