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Sucker Punch

Dark · Physical · 19 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Dark
Sucker Punch
TypeDark
CategoryPhysical
Base power70
Accuracy100%
PP5
Priority+1
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Kingambit 36.8% 99.8% Grimmsnarl 10.4% 5.9% Mega Mawile 5.2% 91.6% Mega Kangaskhan 3.5% 34.3% Meowscarada 2.8% 55.3% Lycanroc-Dusk 2.7% 0.6% Dragapult 0.73% 11.5% Samurott-Hisui 0.48% 52.7% Decidueye-Hisui 0.32% 37.6% Mega Victreebel 0.20% 50.5% Houndoom 0.11% 94.5% Spiritomb 0.06% 17.4% Toxicroak 0.06% 20.8% Mega Emboar 0.05% 10.2% Mega Absol 0.04% 79.7% Lycanroc 0.04% 1.9% Zoroark 0.03% 18% Flapple 0.02% 52.8% Lycanroc-Midnight 0.01% 16.3%

What it does

Fails if the target did not select a physical attack, special attack, or Me First for use this turn, or if the target moves before the user.

At 70 base power it is the 28th 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

19 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Sucker Punch. The one that matters most is Kingambit, which is on 36.8% of teams and carrys it on 99.8% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Dark move it is super effective against Ghost and Psychic, resisted by Dark, Fairy and Fighting. 8 other Dark moves appear in this format: Throat Chop, Nasty Plot, Knock Off, Dark Pulse, Taunt, Foul Play and others.

Who could and does not

39 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Sucker Punch at all, against the 19 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, Meowstic, Bellibolt, Umbreon, Mr. Rime and Hydrapple — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Sucker Punch accounts for an expected 0.46 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 8th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 80% of that comes from Kingambit alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Dark (8), Grass (4) and Rock (3).

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.