What it does on the ladder
Milotic appears on 6.0% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 26th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 83.4% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 53.1%.
The ability is split: Competitive on 98.7%, Marvel Scale on 1.3% and Cute Charm 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
Milotic is number 350 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Water
with a base stat total of 540 — 18th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 125, 11th
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 60, 207th.
It can have Marvel Scale, Competitive and Cute Charm.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Feebas → Milotic.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Feebas is not.
What gets through
As Water, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. 8 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Politoed, Palafin, Blastoise, Vaporeon, Clawitzer 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 Milotic takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 64.4% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 44.8% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Zap Cannon (Electric, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Venusaur — Leaf Storm (Grass, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Milotic reaches
146 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
101. Invested, it outruns 9 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 162 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
Milotic learns 88 moves in the Champions data.
49 of them do damage, across 9 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 Hydro Pump at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It has no priority move, so it moves in Speed order every turn.
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.
