What it does on the ladder
Incineroar appears on 33.9% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 2nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 99.8% of sets.
The item is usually Sitrus Berry at 60.7%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 99.6% and Blaze on 0.4%.
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
Incineroar is number 727 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Fire and Dark
with a base stat total of 530 — 32nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 115, 44th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 60, 165th.
It can have Blaze and Intimidate.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Litten → Torracat → Incineroar.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Litten and Torracat are not.
What gets through
As Fire and Dark, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Houndoom.
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 Incineroar takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Water Spout (Water, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Incineroar reaches
123 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
80. Invested, it outruns 1 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 83 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
Incineroar learns 106 moves in the Champions data.
71 of them do damage, across 12 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 Blast Burn at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3.
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.
