What it does on the ladder
Falinks appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 275th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Close Combat, on 96.6% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 67.2%.
The ability is split: Defiant on 80.6% and Battle Armor on 19.4%.
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
Falinks is number 870 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Fighting
with a base stat total of 470 — 202nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 100, 92nd
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 60, 219th.
It can have Battle Armor and Defiant.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Fighting, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3. The board above
has all of it. 4 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Conkeldurr, Machamp, Passimian, Tauros-Paldea-Combat.
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 Falinks takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 59.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Falinks reaches
139 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
95. 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 62 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
Falinks learns 59 moves in the Champions data.
38 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 8 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Close Combat at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3 and First Impression at +2.
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.
