What it does on the ladder
Basculegion appears on 30.2% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 5th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Last Respects, on 99.9% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 37.3%.
The ability is split: Adaptability on 93.3%, Swift Swim on 6.7% and Mold Breaker on 0%.
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
Basculegion is number 902 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Water and Ghost
with a base stat total of 530 — 33rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 120, 4th
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 65, 183rd.
It can have Swift Swim, Adaptability and Mold Breaker.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Basculin-White-Striped → Basculegion.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Basculin-White-Striped is not.
What gets through
As Water and Ghost, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Basculegion-F.
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 Basculegion takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 44.4% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% of its sets
Against its own formes
Basculegion 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 112 of the 2.
It has the lowest Sp. Atk at 80.
The others are Basculegion-F.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Basculegion reaches
143 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
98. Invested, it outruns 8 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 110 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 100 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Basculegion learns 56 moves in the Champions data.
39 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Wave Crash at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Aqua Jet 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.
