What it does on the ladder
Morpeko appears on 0.02% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 247th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Aura Wheel, on 98.4% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 84%.
Every one of them runs Hunger Switch.
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
Morpeko is number 877 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Electric and Dark
with a base stat total of 436 — 220th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 97, 58th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 58, 222nd.
Its only ability is Hunger Switch.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Electric and Dark, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 5 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 Morpeko takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Focus Blast (Fighting, ×2), on 94% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Morpeko reaches
163 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
117. Invested, it outruns 10 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 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
Morpeko learns 74 moves in the Champions data.
44 of them do damage, across 10 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 Aura Wheel at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Double-Edge at 120.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3 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.
