Moonblast
Fairy · Special · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Moonblast | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fairy |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 95 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 15 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Moonblast | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fairy |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 95 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 15 |
| Priority | 0 |
Has a 30% chance to lower the target's Special Attack by 1 stage.
At 95 base power it is the 10th 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 Moonblast. The one that matters most is Whimsicott, which is on 22.5% of teams and carrys it on 93.9% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Fairy move it is super effective against Dark, Dragon and Fighting, resisted by Fire, Poison and Steel. 4 other Fairy moves appear in this format: Dazzling Gleam, Play Rough, Draining Kiss, Charm.
16 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Moonblast 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 Vileplume, Altaria, Gourgeist-Large and Gourgeist-Super — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Moonblast accounts for an expected 0.38 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 12th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 56% of that comes from Whimsicott alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Fairy (10) and Psychic (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.
