What it does on the ladder
Kommo-o appears on 3.4% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 42nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 99.2% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 55.8%.
The ability is split: Soundproof on 71.9%, Overcoat on 24.1% and Bulletproof on 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
Kommo-o is number 784 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Dragon and Fighting
with a base stat total of 600 — 4th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 125, 19th
in the format; its weakest is HP at 75, 122nd.
It can have Bulletproof, Soundproof and Overcoat.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Jangmo-o → Hakamo-o → Kommo-o.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Jangmo-o and Hakamo-o are not.
What gets through
As Dragon and Fighting, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fairy lands for quadruple. It
resists 7. 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 Kommo-o takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.6% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×4), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×4), on 95.9% of its sets
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 82.8% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Kommo-o 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 78.2 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
Kommo-o learns 106 moves in the Champions data.
63 of them do damage, across 15 of the eighteen
types, and 21 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 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.
