Throat Chop

Throat Chop
Type	Dark
Category	Physical
Base power	80
Accuracy	100%
PP	15
Priority	0

What it does

For 2 turns, the target cannot use sound-based moves.

At 80 base power it is the 18th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

14 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Throat Chop. The one that matters most is Incineroar, which is on 33.6% of teams and carrys it on 51.4% 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: Sucker Punch, Nasty Plot, Dark Pulse, Knock Off, Taunt, Foul Play and others.

Who could and does not

57 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Throat Chop at all, against the 14 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 Kingambit, Sneasler, Excadrill, Kommo-o, Lycanroc-Dusk and Annihilape — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Throat Chop accounts for an expected 0.18 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 30th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 97% of that comes from Incineroar alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Dark (10), Fighting (3) and Water (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.