Superpower
Fighting · Physical · 12 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Superpower | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighting |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Superpower | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighting |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 120 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 5 |
| Priority | 0 |
Lowers the user's Attack and Defense by 1 stage.
At 120 base power it is the 6th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
12 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Superpower. The one that matters most is Mega Tyranitar, which is on 7.6% of teams and carrys it on 12.4% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Fighting move it is super effective against Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel, resisted by Bug, Fairy, Flying, Poison and Psychic, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 11 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Focus Blast, Quick Guard, Aura Sphere and others.
53 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Superpower at all, against the 12 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, Torkoal, Kommo-o, Hydreigon, Swampert and Scizor — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Superpower accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 87th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 27% of that comes from Mega Tyranitar alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Dark (3), Rock (2) and Dragon (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.
