What it does on the ladder
Annihilape appears on 4.8% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 32nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 77.4% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 42.7%.
The ability is split: Defiant on 98.9%, Vital Spirit on 0.9% and Inner Focus on 0.2%.
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
Annihilape is number 979 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Fighting and Ghost
with a base stat total of 535 — 22nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 115, 45th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 50, 205th.
It can have Vital Spirit, Inner Focus and Defiant.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Mankey → Primeape → Annihilape.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Mankey and Primeape are not.
What gets through
As Fighting and Ghost, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3 and is immune to 2. 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 Annihilape takes extra damage from.
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Annihilape reaches
156 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
110. Invested, it outruns 12 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 56 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Annihilape learns 83 moves in the Champions data.
52 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 15 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Focus Punch at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Vacuum Wave 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.
