What it does on the ladder
Diggersby appears on 0.05% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 222nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is High Horsepower, on 69.1% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 40.2%.
The ability is split: Huge Power on 100%, Pickup on 0% and Cheek Pouch 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
Diggersby is number 660 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Normal and Ground
with a base stat total of 423 — 223rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 85, 84th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 50, 214th.
It can have Pickup, Cheek Pouch and Huge Power.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Bunnelby → Diggersby.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Bunnelby is not.
What gets through
As Normal and Ground, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 2. 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 Diggersby takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Ice Fang (Ice, ×2), on 60.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Diggersby reaches
143 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
98. Invested, it outruns 8 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 42.4 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
Diggersby learns 90 moves in the Champions data.
56 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 28 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact at 150 base power.
It also has priority: 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.
