| Soak | |
|---|---|
| Type | Water |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 20 |
| Priority | 0 |
Basculegion
31.5%
0.6%
Pelipper
8.3%
2.3%
Bellibolt
0.88%
92.7%
Araquanid
0.42%
7.4%
Basculegion-F
0.18%
5.8%
Causes the target to become a Water type. Fails if the target is an Arceus or a Silvally, if the target is already purely Water type, or if the target is Terastallized.
5 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Soak. The one that matters most is Basculegion, which is on 31.5% of teams and carrys it on 0.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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.
8 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Soak at all, against the 5 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 Azumarill and Samurott-Hisui — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Soak accounts for an expected 0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 117th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 15% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Water (4) 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.