What it does on the ladder
Ceruledge appears on 4.5% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 34th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Bitter Blade, on 100% of sets.
The item is usually Colbur Berry at 71.1%.
The ability is split: Flash Fire on 98.9% and Weak Armor on 1.1%.
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
Ceruledge is number 937 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Fire and Ghost
with a base stat total of 525 — 56th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 125, 20th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 60, 169th.
It can have Flash Fire and Weak Armor.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Charcadet → Ceruledge.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Charcadet is not.
What gets through
As Fire and Ghost, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 7 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. 3 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Chandelure, Typhlosion-Hisui, Skeledirge.
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 Ceruledge 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
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 99.1% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Ceruledge reaches
150 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
105. Invested, it outruns 11 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 62 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
Ceruledge learns 62 moves in the Champions data.
37 of them do damage, across 11 of the eighteen
types, and 19 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Burn Up at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Shadow Sneak at +1 and Vacuum Wave 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.
