Barbaracle

Base stats, and where each one ranks among the 234 Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B.
Stat	Base	Rank
HP	72	153rd
Attack	105	82nd
Defense	115	31st
Sp. Atk	54	201st
Sp. Def	86	87th
Speed	68	148th
Total	500	124th

Legal, but nobody plays it

Barbaracle is legal in Regulation M-B and did not appear often enough on the ladder to produce usage statistics. It is legal and simply out of favour, which makes it unmeasured rather than unusable.

The Pokémon itself

Barbaracle is number 689 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Rock and Water with a base stat total of 500 — 124th of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 115, 31st in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 54, 201st. It can have Tough Claws, Sniper and Pickpocket. The Champions module tiers it UU.

It sits in a 2-stage line: Binacle → Barbaracle. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Binacle is not.

What gets through

As Rock and Water, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Grass lands for quadruple. 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 Barbaracle takes extra damage from.

Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×4), on 82.2% of its sets
Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×4), on 97.9% of its sets
Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% of its sets

Speed and weight

At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Barbaracle reaches 132 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 88. Invested, it outruns 6 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 96 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

Barbaracle learns 104 moves in the Champions data. 67 of them do damage, across 12 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 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.

Taking damage