What it does on the ladder
Dedenne appears on 0.06% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 220th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Dazzling Gleam, on 95.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 93.2%.
The ability is split: Plus on 53.7%, Pickup on 40.2% and Cheek Pouch on 6.1%.
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
Dedenne is number 702 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Electric and Fairy
with a base stat total of 431 — 221st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 101, 42nd
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 57, 223rd.
It can have Cheek Pouch, Pickup and Plus.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Electric and Fairy, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 5 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
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 Dedenne takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 63% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 97.2% of its sets
- Gengar-Mega — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 62.3% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Dedenne reaches
168 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
121. Invested, it outruns 13 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 2.2 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Dedenne learns 75 moves in the Champions data.
39 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Thunder at 110 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.
