What it does on the ladder
Pelipper appears on 12.9% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 13th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Hurricane, on 98.1% of sets.
The item is usually Sitrus Berry at 45.1%.
The ability is split: Drizzle on 99.8%, Keen Eye on 0.2% and Rain Dish 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
Pelipper is number 279 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Water and Flying
with a base stat total of 440 — 217th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 100, 49th
in the format; its weakest is Attack at 50, 226th.
It can have Keen Eye, Drizzle and Rain Dish.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Wingull → Pelipper.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Wingull is not.
What gets through
As Water and Flying, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Electric lands for quadruple. It
resists 5 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Gyarados.
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 Pelipper takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×4), on 59.2% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×4), on 98.6% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Zap Cannon (Electric, ×4), on 98.8% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 35.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Pelipper reaches
128 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
85. 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 28 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Pelipper learns 88 moves in the Champions data.
53 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 23 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 also has priority: Quick Attack 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.
