What it does
No additional effect.
At 40 base power it is the
38th 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
7 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Shadow Sneak.
The one that matters most is Ceruledge,
which is on 4.5% of teams and carrys it on 97% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Ghost move it is super effective against Ghost and Psychic, resisted by Dark, and does nothing at all to Normal.
3 other Ghost moves appear in this format: Shadow Ball, Phantom Force, Poltergeist.
Who could and does not
19 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Shadow Sneak 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 Sableye, Gallade, Zoroark-Hisui, Gardevoir, Greninja and Spiritomb — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Shadow Sneak accounts for an expected
0.06 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
73rd most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs.
78% of that comes from Ceruledge alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s.
Its carriers are mostly Ghost (6) and Grass (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.
Ceruledge
4.5%
97%
Houndstone
1.4%
11.4%
Aegislash
0.82%
60.6%
Mimikyu
0.57%
80.7%
Decidueye-Hisui
0.32%
2.6%
Mega Banette
0.20%
43.6%
Gourgeist-Large
0.07%
0.1%