What it does on the ladder
Bellibolt appears on 0.29% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 125th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Parabolic Charge, on 95.3% of sets.
The item is usually Sitrus Berry at 40.3%.
The ability is split: Electromorphosis on 99.7%, Static on 0.3% and Damp 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
Bellibolt is number 939 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Electric
with a base stat total of 495 — 133rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 109, 15th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 45, 201st.
It can have Electromorphosis, Static and Damp.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Tadbulb → Bellibolt.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Tadbulb is not.
What gets through
As Electric, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3. The board above
has all of it. 7 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Raichu, Jolteon, Pikachu, Luxray, Manectric and others.
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 Bellibolt takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 95.6% of its sets
- Hydreigon — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 58.8% of its sets
- Excadrill — High Horsepower (Ground, ×2), on 56.9% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Bellibolt reaches
106 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
65. 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 113 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
Bellibolt learns 45 moves in the Champions data.
27 of them do damage, across 6 of the eighteen
types, and 12 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Zap Cannon at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Sucker Punch 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.
