Nasty Plot

Nasty Plot
Type	Dark
Category	Status
Base power	—
Accuracy	never misses
PP	20
Priority	0

Nasty Plot

Type

Dark

What it does

Raises the user's Special Attack by 2 stages.

Who carrys it

12 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Nasty Plot. The one that matters most is Farigiraf, which is on 18.5% of teams and carrys it on 4.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Dark move it is super effective against Ghost and Psychic, resisted by Dark, Fairy and Fighting. 8 other Dark moves appear in this format: Sucker Punch, Throat Chop, Dark Pulse, Knock Off, Taunt, Foul Play and others.

Who could and does not

60 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Nasty Plot at all, against the 12 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 Incineroar, Sneasler, Sinistcha, Grimmsnarl, Ninetales-Alola and Corviknight — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Nasty Plot accounts for an expected 0.15 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 36th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 5% of that comes from Farigiraf alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Psychic (4), Fire (3) and Ghost (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.