What it does on the ladder
Kingambit appears on 36.8% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 1st of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Sucker Punch, on 99.8% of sets.
The item is usually Black Glasses at 40.2%.
The ability is split: Defiant on 99.2%, Supreme Overlord on 0.8% and Pressure on 0%.
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
Kingambit is number 983 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Dark and Steel
with a base stat total of 550 — 15th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 135, 4th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 50, 190th.
It can have Defiant, Supreme Overlord and Pressure.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Pawniard → Bisharp → Kingambit.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pawniard and Bisharp are not.
What gets through
As Dark and Steel, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fighting lands for quadruple. It
resists 9 and is immune to 2. 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 Kingambit takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×4), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×4), on 100% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.5% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Kingambit reaches
112 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
70. Invested, it outruns 0 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 120 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
Kingambit learns 61 moves in the Champions data.
36 of them do damage, across 11 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Steel Beam at 140 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: 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.
