What it does
For 2 turns, the target is prevented from restoring any HP as long as it remains active. During the effect, healing and draining moves are unusable, and Abilities and items that grant healing will not heal the user. If an affected Pokemon uses Baton Pass, the replacement will remain unable to restore its HP. Pain Split and the Regenerator Ability are unaffected.
At 75 base power it is the
31st strongest of the 39 damaging special
moves that appear in this format.
Who carrys it
7 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Psychic Noise.
The one that matters most is Farigiraf,
which is on 18.5% of teams and carrys it on 4.4% 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.
10 other Psychic moves appear in this format: Trick Room, Psychic, Light Screen, Calm Mind, Psyshock, Reflect and others.
Who could and does not
21 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Psychic Noise at all,
against the 7 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 Primarina, Hatterene, Oranguru, Gengar, Metagross and Meowstic — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Psychic Noise accounts for an expected
0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
121st most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
77% of that comes from Farigiraf alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Psychic (6), Normal (2) and Water (2).
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.
Farigiraf
18.5%
4.4%
Slowking-Galar
0.45%
44.6%
Wyrdeer
0.15%
15.4%
Slowbro
0.05%
37.1%
Slowking
0.04%
7.3%
Florges
0.02%
14.3%
Chimecho
0.01%
3.5%