What it does on the ladder
Blaziken appears on 0.41% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 111th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 59.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 69.8%.
The ability is split: Speed Boost on 99.7% and Blaze on 0.3%.
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
Blaziken is number 257 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Fire and Fighting
with a base stat total of 530 — 37th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 120, 35th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 70, 165th.
It can have Blaze and Speed Boost.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Torchic → Combusken → Blaziken.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Torchic and Combusken are not.
What gets through
As Fire and Fighting, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. 3 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Infernape, Tauros-Paldea-Blaze, Emboar.
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 Blaziken takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Dual Wingbeat (Flying, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Blaziken reaches
145 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
100. Invested, it outruns 10 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 52 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
Blaziken learns 122 moves in the Champions data.
80 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 30 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Blast Burn at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3, Feint at +2 and Quick Attack 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.
