What it does on the ladder
Qwilfish appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 272nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Flip Turn, on 61.4% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 51.4%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 91.8%, Swift Swim on 8.1% and Poison Point 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
Qwilfish is number 211 in the National Dex, a Johto Pokémon, Water and Poison
with a base stat total of 440 — 218th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 95, 107th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 55, 225th.
It can have Poison Point, Swift Swim and Intimidate.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Water and Poison, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 8. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Toxapex.
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 Qwilfish takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 50.5% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Qwilfish reaches
150 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
105. Invested, it outruns 11 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 3.9 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Qwilfish learns 99 moves in the Champions data.
59 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 25 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Gunk Shot at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Explosion at 250.
It also has priority: Aqua Jet 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.
