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Psychic

Psychic · Special · 27 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Psychic
Psychic
TypePsychic
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Farigiraf 20.2% 54.4% Mega Floette 15.0% 3.3% Mega Delphox 8.7% 50.8% Mega Gardevoir 2.6% 51.3% Meowstic 0.77% 8.4% Armarouge 0.70% 38.5% Zoroark-Hisui 0.68% 23.8% Hatterene 0.67% 54.6% Oranguru 0.43% 56.2% Mega Chandelure 0.41% 3.4% Slowking-Galar 0.32% 44.4% Mega Alakazam 0.24% 36.7% Mr. Rime 0.23% 24.7% Reuniclus 0.22% 88.4% Wyrdeer 0.18% 30.5% Alcremie 0.15% 8.5% Mega Slowbro 0.15% 50.7% Gengar 0.15% 14.8% Mega Meowstic F 0.11% 25.8% Slowking 0.11% 42.4% Espeon 0.10% 55.4% Mega Chimecho 0.08% 29.2% Floette-Eternal 0.08% 22.4% Musharna 0.06% 58.7%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage.

At 90 base power it is the 14th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

27 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Psychic. The one that matters most is Farigiraf, which is on 20.2% of teams and carrys it on 54.4% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Psychic move it is super effective against Fighting and Poison, resisted by Psychic and Steel, and does nothing at all to Dark. 11 other Psychic moves appear in this format: Trick Room, Light Screen, Reflect, Calm Mind, Psychic Fangs, Psyshock and others.

Who could and does not

65 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Psychic at all, against the 27 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 Whimsicott, Sylveon, Gholdengo, Politoed, Sableye and Vivillon — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Psychic accounts for an expected 0.19 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 27th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 57% of that comes from Farigiraf alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Psychic (21), Fairy (5) and Normal (4).

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.