Reflect
Psychic · Status · 9 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Reflect | |
|---|---|
| Type | Psychic |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Reflect | |
|---|---|
| Type | Psychic |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
For 5 turns, the user and its party members take 0.5x damage from physical attacks, or 0.66x damage if in a Double Battle. Damage is not reduced further with Aurora Veil. Critical hits ignore this effect. It is removed from the user's side if the user or an ally is successfully hit by Brick Break, Psychic Fangs, or Defog. Lasts for 8 turns if the user is holding Light Clay. Fails if the effect is already active on the user's side.
9 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Reflect. The one that matters most is Grimmsnarl, which is on 10.4% of teams and carrys it on 88.9% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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, Psychic, Light Screen, Calm Mind, Psychic Fangs, Psyshock and others.
86 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Reflect 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 Sinistcha, Farigiraf, Sylveon, Archaludon, Gholdengo and Venusaur — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Reflect accounts for an expected 0.11 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 48th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 82% of that comes from Grimmsnarl alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Dark (2), Fairy (2) and Ghost (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.
