What it does on the ladder
Absol appears on 0.02% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 263rd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Sucker Punch, on 82.6% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 33.5%.
The ability is split: Justified on 46.9%, Super Luck on 46.8% and Pressure on 6.2%.
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
Absol is number 359 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Dark
with a base stat total of 465 — 204th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 130, 17th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 60, 216th.
It can have Pressure, Super Luck and Justified.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Dark, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 3 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Umbreon, Liepard, Zoroark.
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 Absol takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 59.3% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 34.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Absol reaches
139 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
95. Invested, it outruns 8 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 47 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Absol learns 117 moves in the Champions data.
71 of them do damage, across 16 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Foul Play at 95 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Feint at +2, Sucker Punch at +1 and Quick Attack 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.
