Liquidation

Liquidation
Type	Water
Category	Physical
Base power	85
Accuracy	100%
PP	10
Priority	0

What it does

Has a 20% chance to lower the target's Defense by 1 stage.

At 85 base power it is the 15th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

13 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Liquidation. The one that matters most is Basculegion, which is on 31.5% of teams and carrys it on 5.8% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Water move it is super effective against Fire, Ground and Rock, resisted by Dragon, Grass and Water. 9 other Water moves appear in this format: Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Life Dew, Scald, Hydro Pump and others.

Who could and does not

36 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Liquidation at all, against the 13 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, Pelipper, Politoed, Primarina, Samurott-Hisui and Slowking-Galar — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Liquidation accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 89th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 54% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Water (9), Poison (2) and Dark (2).

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.