What it does on the ladder
Kangaskhan appears on 1.5% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 65th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is , on 176.9% of sets.
The item is usually Silk Scarf at 76.2%.
The ability is split: Scrappy on 99%, Inner Focus on 0.7% and Early Bird on 0.2%.
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
Kangaskhan is number 115 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Normal
with a base stat total of 490 — 144th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 105, 21st
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 40, 226th.
It can have Early Bird, Scrappy and Inner Focus.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Normal, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 0 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 9 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Maushold, Snorlax, Ditto, Audino, Watchog and others.
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 Kangaskhan takes extra damage from.
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 34.2% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Body Press (Fighting, ×2), on 38.5% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Focus Blast (Fighting, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Annihilape — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 65.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Kangaskhan reaches
156 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
110. Invested, it outruns 12 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 80 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
Kangaskhan learns 124 moves in the Champions data.
80 of them do damage, across 15 of the eighteen
types, and 31 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3 and Sucker Punch 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.
