What it does on the ladder
Beartic appears on 0.03% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 245th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Icicle Crash, on 80.8% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 55.6%.
The ability is split: Swift Swim on 56.8%, Slush Rush on 36.7% and Snow Cloak on 6.5%.
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
Beartic is number 614 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Ice
with a base stat total of 505 — 112th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 130, 16th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 50, 195th.
It can have Snow Cloak, Slush Rush and Swift Swim.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Cubchoo → Beartic.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Cubchoo 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, Glalie, Avalugg.
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 Beartic takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Beartic reaches
112 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
70. 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 260 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
Beartic learns 102 moves in the Champions data.
65 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 10 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 Focus Punch 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.
