Roar
Normal · Status · 11 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Roar | |
|---|---|
| Type | Normal |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | -6 |
| Roar | |
|---|---|
| Type | Normal |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | never misses |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | -6 |
The target is forced to switch out and be replaced with a random unfainted ally. Fails if the target is the last unfainted Pokemon in its party, or if the target used Ingrain previously or has the Suction Cups Ability.
11 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Roar. The one that matters most is Farigiraf, which is on 18.5% of teams and carrys it on 6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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, Swords Dance and others.
73 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Roar at all, against the 11 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 Incineroar, Garchomp, Sylveon, Venusaur, Arcanine-Hisui and Kommo-o — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Roar accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 114th 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 Steel (2), Rock (2) and Flying (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.
