What it does on the ladder
Hawlucha appears on 0.06% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 210th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Close Combat, on 88.3% of sets.
The item is usually White Herb at 74.6%.
The ability is split: Unburden on 90.3%, Limber on 7.5% and Mold Breaker on 2.2%.
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
Hawlucha is number 701 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Fighting and Flying
with a base stat total of 500 — 122nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 118, 12th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 63, 202nd.
It can have Limber, Unburden and Mold Breaker.
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 and Flying, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4 and is immune to 1. 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 Hawlucha takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 72.4% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 66.2% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 51.3% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Zap Cannon (Electric, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Hawlucha reaches
187 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
138. 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 21.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 40 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Hawlucha learns 109 moves in the Champions data.
67 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 27 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Focus Punch at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3 and 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.
