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Rain Dance

Water · Status · 24 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Water
Rain Dance
TypeWater
CategoryStatus
Base power—
Accuracynever misses
PP5
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Staraptor 17.9% 0.3% Pelipper 8.3% 7.3% Ninetales-Alola 6.5% 0.6% Maushold 5.5% 6.6% Vivillon 3.3% 2.6% Aerodactyl 2.6% 0.5% Sableye 2.1% 55.1% Araquanid 0.42% 5.5% Espathra 0.32% 19.6% Mega Banette 0.32% 4.8% Meowstic 0.25% 23.8% Cofagrigus 0.23% 36.7% Klefki 0.19% 22.6% Liepard 0.17% 5% Wyrdeer 0.15% 5.6% Aromatisse 0.12% 11.1% Hawlucha 0.06% 17.3% Mega Meowstic F 0.05% 25.9% Roserade 0.04% 2.5% Slowking 0.04% 12.7% Froslass 0.03% 64.1% Leafeon 0.03% 7.9% Absol 0.01% 1.2% Appletun 0.01% 3.3%

What it does

For 5 turns, the weather becomes Rain Dance. The damage of Water-type attacks is multiplied by 1.5 and the damage of Fire-type attacks is multiplied by 0.5 during the effect. Lasts for 8 turns if the user is holding Damp Rock. Fails if the current weather is Rain Dance.

Who carrys it

24 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Rain Dance. The one that matters most is Mega Staraptor, which is on 17.9% of teams and carrys it on 0.3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Water move it is super effective against Fire, Ground and Rock, resisted by Dragon, Grass and Water. 9 other Water moves appear in this format: Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Life Dew, Scald, Hydro Pump and others.

Who could and does not

171 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Rain Dance at all, against the 24 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 Kingambit, Garchomp, Basculegion, Sneasler, Farigiraf and Sylveon — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Rain Dance accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 95th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 2% of that comes from Mega Staraptor alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Flying (5), Psychic (5) and Ghost (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.

Where this goes next

Build

Open the builder with Mega Staraptor seated — Mega Staraptor brings Rain Dance to more teams than any of the other 23 Pokémon that carry it.

More

All 121 moves the format runs, ordered by how many copies an average team carries.