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Thunderbolt

Electric · Special · 27 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Electric
Thunderbolt
TypeElectric
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Farigiraf 20.2% 59.2% Archaludon 14.3% 0.9% Gholdengo 9.2% 5.7% Rotom-Wash 3.8% 67.9% Mega Froslass 3.7% 4.4% Mega Gardevoir 2.6% 11.9% Mega Dragonite 2.4% 31.8% Drampa 0.90% 11% Rotom-Heat 0.80% 54.6% Mega Eelektross 0.78% 66.4% Mega Dragalge 0.48% 16.8% Raichu 0.33% 25.6% Bellibolt 0.29% 70% Heliolisk 0.28% 57.5% Goodra-Hisui 0.23% 16.9% Jolteon 0.23% 25% Mega Ampharos 0.20% 88.8% Mega Manectric 0.20% 64% Rotom-Mow 0.19% 70.4% Gengar 0.15% 5.9% Rotom-Frost 0.13% 64.2% Mega Meowstic F 0.11% 10.9% Dedenne 0.06% 90.3% Starmie 0.04% 52.4%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to paralyze the target.

At 90 base power it is the 15th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

27 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Thunderbolt. The one that matters most is Farigiraf, which is on 20.2% of teams and carrys it on 59.2% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Electric move it is super effective against Flying and Water, resisted by Dragon, Electric and Grass, and does nothing at all to Ground. 3 other Electric moves appear in this format: Volt Switch, Electroweb, Discharge.

Who could and does not

62 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Thunderbolt at all, against the 27 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 Annihilape, Tyranitar, Gallade, Kangaskhan, Meowstic and Dragapult — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Thunderbolt accounts for an expected 0.19 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 28th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 64% of that comes from Farigiraf alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Electric (14), Dragon (7) and Psychic (5).

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.