Nasty Plot
Dark · Status · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Nasty Plot | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Nasty Plot | |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
Raises the user's Special Attack by 2 stages.
11 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Nasty Plot. The one that matters most is Gholdengo, which is on 9.2% of teams and carrys it on 72.4% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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, Knock Off, Dark Pulse, Taunt, Foul Play and others.
60 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Nasty Plot 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 Incineroar, Sinistcha, Sneasler, Farigiraf, Grimmsnarl and Ninetales-Alola — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Nasty Plot accounts for an expected 0.14 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 39th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 48% of that comes from Gholdengo alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Ghost (3), Fire (3) and Psychic (3).
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.
