| Perish Song | |
|---|---|
| Type | Normal |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Mega Gengar
4.9%
81.7%
Politoed
3.9%
72.8%
Primarina
1.7%
6.4%
Altaria
0.79%
56.6%
Azumarill
0.35%
2.6%
Each active Pokemon receives a perish count of 4 if it doesn't already have a perish count. At the end of each turn including the turn used, the perish count of all active Pokemon lowers by 1 and Pokemon faint if the number reaches 0. The perish count is removed from Pokemon that switch out. If a Pokemon uses Baton Pass while it has a perish count, the replacement will gain the perish count and continue to count down.
5 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Perish Song. The one that matters most is Mega Gengar, which is on 4.9% of teams and carrys it on 81.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Normal move it is super effective against nothing, resisted by Rock and Steel, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 16 other Normal moves appear in this format: Protect, Fake Out, Weather Ball, Encore, Hyper Voice, Helping Hand and others.
7 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Perish Song at all, against the 5 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 Absol — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Perish Song accounts for an expected 0.07 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 61st most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 54% of that comes from Mega Gengar alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Water (3) and Fairy (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.