What it does on the ladder
Avalugg-Hisui appears on 0.13% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 171st of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Rock Slide, on 92.7% of sets.
The item is usually Wide Lens at 64.2%.
The ability is split: Sturdy on 94.2%, Ice Body on 3.9% and Strong Jaw on 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
Avalugg-Hisui is number 713 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Ice and Rock
with a base stat total of 514 — 89th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 184, 2nd
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 34, 231st.
It can have Strong Jaw, Ice Body and Sturdy.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Bergmite → Avalugg-Hisui.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Bergmite is not.
What gets through
As Ice and Rock, 6 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fighting and Steel land for quadruple. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Aurorus.
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-Hisui takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×4), on 67.8% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×4), on 99.7% 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 Attack at 127 and Speed at 38 of the 2.
It has the lowest Sp. Atk at 34 and Sp. Def at 36.
The others are Avalugg.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Avalugg-Hisui reaches
99 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
58. 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 262.4 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-Hisui learns 54 moves in the Champions data.
34 of them do damage, across 8 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 Meteor Beam at 120 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.
