What it does on the ladder
Mudsdale appears on 0.63% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 92nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 96.3% of sets.
The item is usually Sitrus Berry at 60.4%.
The ability is split: Inner Focus on 81.8%, Stamina on 16.5% and Own Tempo on 1.7%.
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
Mudsdale is number 750 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Ground
with a base stat total of 500 — 115th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 125, 22nd
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 35, 214th.
It can have Own Tempo, Stamina and Inner Focus.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Mudbray → Mudsdale.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Mudbray is not.
What gets through
As Ground, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Hippowdon, Sandaconda.
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 Mudsdale takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Ice Fang (Ice, ×2), on 60.6% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Water Spout (Water, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Wave Crash (Water, ×2), on 97.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Mudsdale reaches
95 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
55. Invested, it outruns 0 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 920 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 120 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Mudsdale learns 63 moves in the Champions data.
36 of them do damage, across 6 of the eighteen
types, and 8 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Earthquake at 100 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.
