| Vacuum Wave | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighting |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 40 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 30 |
| Priority | +1 |
Kommo-o
4.3%
44.7%
Mega Gardevoir
2.9%
9.3%
Mega Sceptile
0.40%
2.1%
Mega Lucario
0.28%
16.6%
Empoleon
0.15%
15.4%
No additional effect.
At 40 base power it is the 39th strongest of the 39 damaging special moves that appear in this format, and it moves at priority +1, before anything at +0 or below.
5 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Vacuum Wave. The one that matters most is Kommo-o, which is on 4.3% of teams and carrys it on 44.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Fighting move it is super effective against Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel, resisted by Bug, Fairy, Flying, Poison and Psychic, and does nothing at all to Ghost. 11 other Fighting moves appear in this format: Close Combat, Low Kick, Detect, Focus Blast, Quick Guard, Aura Sphere and others.
20 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Vacuum Wave 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 Sneasler, Annihilape, Ceruledge, Scizor, Gallade and Samurott-Hisui — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Vacuum Wave accounts for an expected 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 104th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 85% of that comes from Kommo-o alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Dragon (2), Fighting (2) and Steel (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.