What it does on the ladder
Noivern appears on 0.10% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 187th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Tailwind, on 92.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 66.5%.
The ability is split: Frisk on 46.5%, Infiltrator on 28.1% and Telepathy on 25.4%.
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
Noivern is number 715 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Flying and Dragon
with a base stat total of 535 — 26th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 123, 7th
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 70, 177th.
It can have Frisk, Infiltrator and Telepathy.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Noibat → Noivern.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Noibat is not.
What gets through
As Flying and Dragon, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Ice lands for quadruple. It
resists 5 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Dragonite, Altaria.
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 Noivern takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Dragon Claw (Dragon, ×2), on 91.2% 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
- Archaludon — Dragon Pulse (Dragon, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Blizzard (Ice, ×4), on 99.2% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Noivern reaches
192 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
143. Invested, it outruns 17 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 85 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
Noivern learns 88 moves in the Champions data.
57 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 17 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Sky Attack at 140 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.
