What it does on the ladder
Avalugg appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 264th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Body Press, on 78.9% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 48.2%.
The ability is split: Sturdy on 74.8%, Own Tempo on 24.7% and Ice Body on 0.5%.
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
Avalugg is number 713 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Ice
with a base stat total of 514 — 90th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 184, 3rd
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 28, 233rd.
It can have Own Tempo, Ice Body and Sturdy.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Bergmite → Avalugg.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Bergmite is not.
What gets through
As Ice, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1. The board above
has all of it. 4 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Vanilluxe, Glaceon, Beartic, Glalie.
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 Avalugg takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), 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, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
Against its own formes
Avalugg has 2 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest Sp. Atk at 44 and Sp. Def at 46 of the 2.
It has the lowest Attack at 117 and Speed at 28.
The others are Avalugg-Hisui.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Avalugg reaches
88 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
48. 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 505 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 120 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Avalugg learns 76 moves in the Champions data.
44 of them do damage, across 8 of the eighteen
types, and 11 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Blizzard 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.
