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Throat Chop

Dark · Physical · 17 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Dark
Throat Chop
TypeDark
CategoryPhysical
Base power80
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Kingambit 36.8% 0% Incineroar 33.9% 44.4% Sneasler 20.9% 1.5% Excadrill 4.1% 0.3% Meowscarada 2.8% 7% Mega Scrafty 2.4% 11.6% Mega Malamar 0.65% 7.8% Overqwil 0.62% 37.6% Weavile 0.60% 6.5% Palafin 0.48% 2.5% Mega Sableye 0.29% 8.4% Mega Beedrill 0.16% 1% Mega Falinks 0.12% 10.6% Machamp 0.04% 11.2% Toucannon 0.02% 6% Mega Absol 0.02% 8.1% Tauros-Paldea-Combat 0.01% 18.3%

What it does

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

At 80 base power it is the 20th strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

17 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Throat Chop. The one that matters most is Kingambit, which is on 36.8% of teams and carrys it on 0% 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, Knock Off, Dark Pulse, Taunt, Foul Play and others.

Who could and does not

57 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Throat Chop at all, against the 17 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 Grimmsnarl, Annihilape, Ceruledge, Hydreigon, Kommo-o and Mamoswine — 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 0.16 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 32nd most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 0% of that comes from Kingambit alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Dark (9), Fighting (5) and Poison (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.