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Quick Attack

Normal · Physical · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Normal
Quick Attack
TypeNormal
CategoryPhysical
Base power40
Accuracy100%
PP30
Priority+1
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Sylveon 17.5% 88.3% Mega Staraptor 12.9% 0.5% Mega Manectric 0.18% 2% Mega Pidgeot 0.12% 0.6% Mega Pinsir 0.11% 3.1% Diggersby 0.05% 20% Pikachu 0.04% 14.9% Flareon 0.02% 38.7%

What it does

No additional effect.

At 40 base power it is the 36th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +1, before anything at +0 or below.

Who carrys it

8 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Quick Attack. The one that matters most is Sylveon, which is on 17.5% of teams and carrys it on 88.3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

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.

Who could and does not

43 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Quick Attack at all, against the 8 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 Sneasler, Pelipper, Talonflame, Meowscarada, Lycanroc-Dusk and Dragapult — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Quick Attack accounts for an expected 0.16 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 33rd most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 99% of that comes from Sylveon alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Flying (3), Electric (2) and Normal (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.