| Triple Axel | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ice |
| Category | Physical |
| Base power | 20 |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
Meowscarada
2.1%
35.3%
Tsareena
1.3%
92.3%
Weavile
0.81%
57.4%
Gallade
0.74%
2.2%
Mega Lopunny
0.50%
33.1%
Hits three times. Power increases to 40 for the second hit and 60 for the third. This move checks accuracy for each hit, and the attack ends if the target avoids a hit. If one of the hits breaks the target's substitute, it will take damage for the remaining hits. If the user has the Skill Link Ability, this move will always hit three times.
At 20 base power it is the 39th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.
5 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Triple Axel. The one that matters most is Meowscarada, which is on 2.1% of teams and carrys it on 35.3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Ice move it is super effective against Dragon, Flying, Grass and Ground, resisted by Fire, Ice, Steel and Water. 9 other Ice moves appear in this format: Blizzard, Ice Punch, Icy Wind, Aurora Veil, Freeze-Dry, Ice Beam and others.
14 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Triple Axel at all, against the 5 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 Ninetales-Alola, Milotic, Primarina, Glaceon, Mr. Rime and Empoleon — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Triple Axel accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 99th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 29% of that comes from Meowscarada alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Grass (2), Dark (2) and Fighting (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.