What it does on the ladder
Abomasnow appears on 0.04% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 223rd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Blizzard, on 93.4% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 55.2%.
The ability is split: Snow Warning on 99.1% and Soundproof on 0.9%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Abomasnow is number 460 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Grass and Ice
with a base stat total of 494 — 139th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 92, 113th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 60, 177th.
It can have Snow Warning and Soundproof.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Snover → Abomasnow.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Snover is not.
What gets through
As Grass and Ice, 7 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fire lands for quadruple. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Abomasnow takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×4), on 91.1% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 84% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×4), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Abomasnow reaches
123 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
80. Invested, it outruns 1 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 135.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 100 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Abomasnow learns 97 moves in the Champions data.
57 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 23 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Leaf Storm at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Focus Punch at 150.
It also has priority: Ice Shard at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
