What it does on the ladder
Eelektross appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 280th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 62.1% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 23.5%.
Every one of them runs Levitate.
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
Eelektross is number 604 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Electric
with a base stat total of 515 — 88th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 115, 50th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 50, 197th.
Its only ability is Levitate.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Tynamo → Eelektrik → Eelektross.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Tynamo and Eelektrik are not.
What gets through
As Electric, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3. The board above
has all of it. 7 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Raichu, Bellibolt, Jolteon, Pikachu, Luxray and others.
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 Eelektross takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 95.6% of its sets
- Hydreigon — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 58.8% of its sets
- Excadrill — High Horsepower (Ground, ×2), on 56.9% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Eelektross reaches
112 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
70. Invested, it outruns 0 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 80.5 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
Eelektross learns 102 moves in the Champions data.
69 of them do damage, across 16 of the eighteen
types, and 13 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Zap Cannon at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Focus Punch 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.
