What it does on the ladder
Mimikyu appears on 0.57% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 95th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Play Rough, on 94.5% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 53.6%.
Every one of them runs Disguise.
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
Mimikyu is number 778 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Ghost and Fairy
with a base stat total of 476 — 192nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 105, 34th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 50, 212th.
Its only ability is Disguise.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Ghost and Fairy, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1 and is immune to 3. 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 Mimikyu takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Make It Rain (Steel, ×2), on 99.5% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 66.6% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 47.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Mimikyu reaches
162 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
116. Invested, it outruns 12 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 0.7 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
Mimikyu learns 88 moves in the Champions data.
40 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 9 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Phantom Force at 90 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Shadow Sneak 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.
