Leaf Storm
Grass · Special · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Leaf Storm | |
|---|---|
| Type | Grass |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 130 |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Leaf Storm | |
|---|---|
| Type | Grass |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 130 |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Lowers the user's Special Attack by 2 stages.
At 130 base power it is the 3rd strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
11 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Leaf Storm. The one that matters most is Sinistcha, which is on 26.1% of teams and carrys it on 1.8% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Grass move it is super effective against Ground, Rock and Water, resisted by Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass, Poison and Steel. 7 other Grass moves appear in this format: Solar Beam, Sleep Powder, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Leech Seed, Grass Knot and others.
23 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Leaf Storm at all, against the 11 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 Meowscarada, Tsareena, Decidueye-Hisui, Leafeon, Trevenant and Torterra — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Leaf Storm accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 90th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 12% of that comes from Sinistcha alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Grass (11), Poison (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.
