What it does on the ladder
Glaceon appears on 0.28% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 121st of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Freeze-Dry, on 97.9% of sets.
The item is usually Bright Powder at 46.9%.
The ability is split: Snow Cloak on 93% and Ice Body on 7%.
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
Glaceon is number 471 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Ice
with a base stat total of 525 — 61st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 130, 10th
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 60, 214th.
It can have Snow Cloak and Ice Body.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Eevee → Glaceon.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Eevee is not.
What gets through
As Ice, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1. The board above
has all of it. 4 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Vanilluxe, Beartic, Avalugg, Glalie.
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 Glaceon takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.1% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 84% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Glaceon reaches
128 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
85. Invested, it outruns 4 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 25.9 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
Glaceon learns 92 moves in the Champions data.
47 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 10 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Blizzard at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Ice Shard at +1 and 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.
