Power Gem
Rock · Special · 9 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Power Gem | |
|---|---|
| Type | Rock |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 80 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Power Gem | |
|---|---|
| Type | Rock |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 80 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
No additional effect.
At 80 base power it is the 25th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
9 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Power Gem. The one that matters most is Gholdengo, which is on 9.2% of teams and carrys it on 23.1% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Rock move it is super effective against Bug, Fire, Flying and Ice, resisted by Fighting, Ground and Steel. 5 other Rock moves appear in this format: Rock Slide, Wide Guard, Rock Tomb, Ancient Power, Head Smash.
15 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Power Gem at all, against the 9 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 Sableye, Meowscarada, Tyranitar, Arcanine-Hisui, Garganacl and Bastiodon — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Power Gem accounts for an expected 0.08 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 55th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 25% of that comes from Gholdengo alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Psychic (5), Poison (3) and Dragon (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.
