What it does on the ladder
Araquanid appears on 0.63% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 91st of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Liquidation, on 84.2% of sets.
The item is usually Mystic Water at 59.7%.
The ability is split: Water Bubble on 99.7% and Water Absorb on 0.3%.
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
Araquanid is number 752 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Water and Bug
with a base stat total of 454 — 213th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 132, 7th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 42, 206th.
It can have Water Bubble and Water Absorb.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Dewpider → Araquanid.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Dewpider is not.
What gets through
As Water and Bug, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 5. 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 Araquanid takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% 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
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Araquanid reaches
103 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
62. Invested, it outruns 0 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 82 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
Araquanid learns 70 moves in the Champions data.
38 of them do damage, across 7 of the eighteen
types, and 20 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Hydro Pump at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It has no priority move, so it moves in Speed order every turn.
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.
