What it does on the ladder
Meowscarada appears on 2.8% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 49th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Flower Trick, on 99.4% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 45.6%.
The ability is split: Overgrow on 56.9% and Protean on 43.1%.
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
Meowscarada is number 908 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Grass and Dark
with a base stat total of 530 — 35th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 123, 6th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 70, 163rd.
It can have Overgrow and Protean.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Sprigatito → Floragato → Meowscarada.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Sprigatito and Floragato are not.
What gets through
As Grass and Dark, 7 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Bug lands for quadruple. It
resists 6 and is immune to 1. 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 Meowscarada takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% 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, Meowscarada reaches
192 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
143. Invested, it outruns 18 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 31.2 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Meowscarada learns 76 moves in the Champions data.
48 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 23 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Frenzy Plant at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Sucker Punch at +1 and Quick Attack 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.
