What it does on the ladder
Goodra appears on 0.05% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 218th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Dragon Pulse, on 53.4% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 53.4%.
The ability is split: Sap Sipper on 84.8%, Gooey on 11.1% and Hydration on 4.1%.
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
Goodra is number 706 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Dragon
with a base stat total of 600 — 10th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 150, 3rd
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 70, 174th.
It can have Sap Sipper, Hydration and Gooey.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Goomy → Sliggoo → Goodra.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Goomy and Sliggoo are not.
What gets through
As Dragon, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4. 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 Goodra takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Blizzard (Ice, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Ice Fang (Ice, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
Against its own formes
Goodra has 2 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest HP at 90 and Speed at 80 of the 2.
It has the lowest Defense at 70.
The others are Goodra-Hisui.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Goodra reaches
145 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
100. 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 150.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 100 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Goodra learns 90 moves in the Champions data.
65 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 7 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Draco Meteor at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Focus Punch at 150.
It also has priority: Feint 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.
