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Volt Switch

Electric · Special · 18 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Electric
Volt Switch
TypeElectric
CategorySpecial
Base power70
Accuracy100%
PP20
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Raichu Y 7.0% 4.9% Rotom-Wash 3.8% 49.1% Rotom-Heat 0.80% 68% Mega Raichu X 0.78% 63.9% Raichu 0.33% 49.6% Bellibolt 0.29% 9.9% Heliolisk 0.28% 34.1% Jolteon 0.23% 46.7% Mega Ampharos 0.20% 7.4% Mega Manectric 0.20% 80% Rotom-Mow 0.19% 53.7% Rotom-Frost 0.13% 83% Pikachu 0.04% 35.6% Luxray 0.04% 54.5% Morpeko 0.03% 1.8% Emolga 0.02% 16.2% Raichu-Alola 0.01% 33.2% Eelektross 0.01% 33.8%

What it does

If this move is successful and the user has not fainted, the user switches out even if it is trapped and is replaced immediately by a selected party member. The user does not switch out if there are no unfainted party members, or if the target switched out using an Eject Button or through the effect of the Emergency Exit or Wimp Out Abilities.

At 70 base power it is the 33rd strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

18 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Volt Switch. The one that matters most is Mega Raichu Y, which is on 7.0% of teams and carrys it on 4.9% 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: Thunderbolt, Electroweb, Discharge.

Who could and does not

20 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Volt Switch at all, against the 18 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 Dedenne — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Volt Switch accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 86th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 8% of that comes from Mega Raichu Y alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Electric (18).

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.