What it does on the ladder
Reuniclus appears on 0.07% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 204th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Trick Room, on 85.9% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 36.3%.
The ability is split: Magic Guard on 53.8%, Regenerator on 36.6% and Overcoat on 9.6%.
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
Reuniclus is number 579 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Psychic
with a base stat total of 490 — 152nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 125, 18th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 30, 223rd.
It can have Overcoat, Magic Guard and Regenerator.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Solosis → Duosion → Reuniclus.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Solosis and Duosion are not.
What gets through
As Psychic, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2. The board above
has all of it. 6 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Espathra, Meowstic, Alakazam, Espeon, Musharna and others.
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 Reuniclus 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
- Basculegion — Last Respects (Ghost, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 91.8% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 91.7% of its sets
- Gholdengo — Shadow Ball (Ghost, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Reuniclus reaches
90 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
50. Invested, it outruns 0 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 20.1 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 40 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Reuniclus learns 99 moves in the Champions data.
46 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 10 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Future Sight at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Explosion at 250.
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.
