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Will-O-Wisp

Fire · Status · 37 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fire
Will-O-Wisp
TypeFire
CategoryStatus
Base power—
Accuracy85%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Incineroar 33.9% 1.3% Mega Gengar 5.1% 2.2% Ceruledge 4.5% 0.6% Rotom-Wash 3.8% 64.4% Sableye 3.7% 24.8% Talonflame 3.5% 14.8% Houndstone 1.4% 86.9% Arcanine-Hisui 1.2% 1.1% Volcarona 1.2% 5.5% Rotom-Heat 0.80% 33.7% Mega Charizard X 0.79% 2.1% Altaria 0.79% 49.3% Dragapult 0.73% 54% Zoroark-Hisui 0.68% 26.4% Mimikyu 0.57% 19.7% Ninetales 0.32% 8.8% Arcanine 0.27% 51.6% Mega Houndoom 0.23% 1% Cofagrigus 0.21% 36.5% Mega Banette 0.20% 26.7% Rotom-Mow 0.19% 38.2% Rotom-Frost 0.13% 14.1% Salazzle 0.12% 3.7% Skeledirge 0.11% 50.2%

What it does

Burns the target.

Who carrys it

37 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Will-O-Wisp. The one that matters most is Incineroar, which is on 33.9% of teams and carrys it on 1.3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Fire move it is super effective against Bug, Grass, Ice and Steel, resisted by Dragon, Fire, Rock and Water. 5 other Fire moves appear in this format: Heat Wave, Flare Blitz, Overheat, Flamethrower, Sunny Day.

Who could and does not

53 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Will-O-Wisp at all, against the 37 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 Torkoal, Gallade, Chandelure, Typhlosion-Hisui, Armarouge and Blaziken — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Will-O-Wisp accounts for an expected 0.08 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 59th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 6% of that comes from Incineroar alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Fire (17), Ghost (17) and Dark (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.