Muddy Water
Water · Special · 10 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Muddy Water | |
|---|---|
| Type | Water |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 90 |
| Accuracy | 85% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Muddy Water | |
|---|---|
| Type | Water |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 90 |
| Accuracy | 85% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
Has a 30% chance to lower the target's accuracy by 1 stage.
At 90 base power it is the 16th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
10 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Muddy Water. The one that matters most is Pelipper, which is on 12.9% of teams and carrys it on 3.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Water move it is super effective against Fire, Ground and Rock, resisted by Dragon, Grass and Water. 8 other Water moves appear in this format: Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Life Dew, Liquidation, Rain Dance and others.
27 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Muddy Water at all, against the 10 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, Toxapex, Tyranitar, Azumarill, Slowking-Galar and Gyarados — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Muddy Water accounts for an expected 0.05 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 79th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 8% 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 (9) 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.
