What it does on the ladder
Maushold appears on 6.3% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 26th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Follow Me, on 96.5% of sets.
The item is usually Wide Lens at 36.5%.
The ability is split: Friend Guard on 66.6%, Technician on 33.4% and Cheek Pouch 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
Maushold is number 925 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Normal
with a base stat total of 470 — 199th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 111, 19th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 65, 155th.
It can have Friend Guard, Cheek Pouch and Technician.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Tandemaus → Maushold.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Tandemaus is not.
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: Kangaskhan, 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 Maushold 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, Maushold reaches
179 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
131. Invested, it outruns 16 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 2.3 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Maushold learns 55 moves in the Champions data.
29 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 13 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: Feint at +2.
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.
