What it does on the ladder
Oranguru appears on 0.44% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 100th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Instruct, on 99.5% of sets.
The item is usually Mental Herb at 58.8%.
The ability is split: Inner Focus on 74.8%, Telepathy on 25% and Symbiosis on 0.2%.
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
Oranguru is number 765 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Normal and Psychic
with a base stat total of 490 — 146th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 110, 21st
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 60, 173rd.
It can have Inner Focus, Telepathy and Symbiosis.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Normal and Psychic, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Farigiraf, Wyrdeer.
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 Oranguru takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 51.4% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 91.8% of its sets
- Tyranitar-Mega — Knock Off (Dark, ×2), on 95.1% of its sets
- Toxapex — Infestation (Bug, ×2), on 98.3% of its sets
- Tyranitar — Knock Off (Dark, ×2), on 96.8% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Oranguru reaches
123 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
80. Invested, it outruns 1 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 76 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
Oranguru learns 91 moves in the Champions data.
44 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 27 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact at 150 base power.
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.
