What it does on the ladder
Pangoro appears on 0.02% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 257th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 68.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 40.9%.
The ability is split: Scrappy on 61.7%, Iron Fist on 38.2% and Mold Breaker on 0.1%.
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
Pangoro is number 675 in the National Dex, a Kalos Pokémon, Fighting and Dark
with a base stat total of 495 — 136th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 124, 27th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 58, 183rd.
It can have Iron Fist, Mold Breaker and Scrappy.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Pancham → Pangoro.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pancham is not.
What gets through
As Fighting and Dark, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fairy lands for quadruple. It
resists 3 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Scrafty.
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 Pangoro takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×4), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×4), on 95.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×4), on 59.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Pangoro reaches
121 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
78. 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 136 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 100 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Pangoro learns 120 moves in the Champions data.
76 of them do damage, across 16 of the eighteen
types, and 30 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Focus Punch at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Bullet Punch 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.
