What it does on the ladder
Mr. Rime appears on 0.15% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 162nd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Freeze-Dry, on 84% of sets.
The item is usually Never-Melt Ice at 41.4%.
The ability is split: Screen Cleaner on 95.2%, Ice Body on 4% and Tangled Feet on 0.8%.
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
Mr. Rime is number 866 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Ice and Psychic
with a base stat total of 520 — 78th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 110, 40th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 70, 137th.
It can have Tangled Feet, Screen Cleaner and Ice Body.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Mime Jr. → Mr. Mime-Galar → Mr. Rime.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Mime Jr. and Mr. Mime-Galar are not.
What gets through
As Ice and Psychic, 6 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2. 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 Mr. Rime takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.1% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 84% of its sets
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Mr. Rime reaches
134 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
90. Invested, it outruns 5 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 58.2 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Mr. Rime learns 101 moves in the Champions data.
47 of them do damage, across 11 of the eighteen
types, and 19 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Future Sight at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3, Sucker Punch at +1 and Ice Shard 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.
