What it does on the ladder
Chandelure appears on 1.2% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 68th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Shadow Ball, on 94.1% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 84.2%.
The ability is split: Flash Fire on 96.5%, Infiltrator on 3% and Flame Body on 0.6%.
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
Chandelure is number 609 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Ghost and Fire
with a base stat total of 520 — 76th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 145, 1st
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 55, 220th.
It can have Flash Fire, Flame Body and Infiltrator.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Litwick → Lampent → Chandelure.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Litwick and Lampent are not.
What gets through
As Ghost and Fire, 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: Ceruledge, 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 Chandelure 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, Chandelure 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 34.3 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Chandelure learns 75 moves in the Champions data.
39 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 18 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Overheat at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It has no priority move, so it moves in Speed order every turn.
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.
