What it does on the ladder
Kleavor appears on 0.51% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 97th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Stone Axe, on 96.3% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 50.8%.
The ability is split: Sharpness on 95.1%, Sheer Force on 3.1% and Swarm on 1.7%.
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
Kleavor is number 900 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Bug and Rock
with a base stat total of 500 — 116th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 135, 6th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 45, 219th.
It can have Swarm, Sheer Force and Sharpness.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Scyther → Kleavor.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Scyther is not.
What gets through
As Bug and Rock, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 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 Kleavor takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Make It Rain (Steel, ×2), on 99.5% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Kleavor reaches
150 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
105. Invested, it outruns 11 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 89 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
Kleavor learns 63 moves in the Champions data.
40 of them do damage, across 7 of the eighteen
types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Stone Edge at 100 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Feint at +2, Quick Attack at +1 and Vacuum Wave 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.
