What it does on the ladder
Rampardos appears on 0.10% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 195th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Rock Slide, on 98% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 83.5%.
The ability is split: Sheer Force on 91.8% and Mold Breaker on 8.2%.
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
Rampardos is number 409 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Rock
with a base stat total of 495 — 135th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 165, 1st
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 50, 229th.
It can have Mold Breaker and Sheer Force.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Cranidos → Rampardos.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Cranidos is not.
What gets through
As Rock, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. 4 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Lycanroc-Dusk, Garganacl, Lycanroc, Lycanroc-Midnight.
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 Rampardos takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Rampardos 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 102.5 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
Rampardos learns 103 moves in the Champions data.
69 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 8 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Head Smash 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.
