What it does
The user swaps its held item with the target's held item. Fails if both the user and the target have no held item, or if the user is trying to give or take a Blue Orb, Red Orb, Adamant Crystal, Lustrous Globe, Griseous Core, Plate, Drive, Memory, Rusted Sword, Rusted Shield, Booster Energy, or Mask to or from a Kyogre, Groudon, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Arceus, Genesect, Silvally, Zacian, Zamazenta, Paradox Pokemon, or Ogerpon, respectively. In this case, Paradox Pokemon include every species with the Protosynthesis and Quark Drive Abilities, except Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, and Iron Crown. The target is immune to this move if it has the Sticky Hold Ability.
Who carrys it
15 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the
Regulation M-B ladder carry Trick.
The one that matters most is Gholdengo,
which is on 7.4% of teams and carrys it on 7.9% of its sets.
The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
What it hits
As a Psychic move it is super effective against Fighting and Poison, resisted by Psychic and Steel, and does nothing at all to Dark.
10 other Psychic moves appear in this format: Trick Room, Psychic, Light Screen, Calm Mind, Psyshock, Reflect and others.
Who could and does not
56 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Trick at all,
against the 15 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 Farigiraf, Grimmsnarl, Sableye, Meowscarada, Clefable and Mimikyu — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
How concentrated it is
Across the ladder, Trick accounts for an expected
0.01 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the
118th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs.
48% of that comes from Gholdengo alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon.
Its carriers are mostly Electric (6), Ghost (5) and Psychic (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.
Gholdengo
7.4%
7.9%
Rotom-Wash
3.5%
5.6%
Chandelure
0.84%
6.2%
Zoroark-Hisui
0.81%
25%
Rotom-Heat
0.61%
16.1%
Gengar
0.30%
4.8%
Rotom-Mow
0.13%
6.2%
Gardevoir
0.12%
9.4%
Rotom-Frost
0.10%
21.2%
Starmie
0.03%
6.8%
Floette-Eternal
0.02%
16%
Musharna
0.02%
16.4%
Zoroark
0.02%
37.1%
Rotom-Fan
0.01%
83%
Rotom
0.01%
27.3%