What it does on the ladder
Emolga appears on 0.02% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 268th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Nuzzle, on 67.2% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 88%.
The ability is split: Motor Drive on 96.4% and Static on 3.6%.
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
Emolga is number 587 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Electric and Flying
with a base stat total of 428 — 222nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 103, 39th
in the format; its weakest is HP at 55, 221st.
It can have Static and Motor Drive.
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 Flying, 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. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Rotom-Fan.
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 Emolga takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Ice Punch (Ice, ×2), on 84.6% of its sets
- Milotic — Icy Wind (Ice, ×2), on 41.2% of its sets
- Ninetales-Alola — Blizzard (Ice, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 35.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Emolga reaches
170 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
123. Invested, it outruns 15 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 5 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
Emolga learns 68 moves in the Champions data.
35 of them do damage, across 8 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 Last Resort at 140.
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.
