What it does on the ladder
Rhyperior appears on 0.12% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 179th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Rock Slide, on 93.5% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 54.3%.
The ability is split: Solid Rock on 54.2%, Lightning Rod on 42.5% and Reckless on 3.2%.
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
Rhyperior is number 464 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Ground and Rock
with a base stat total of 535 — 25th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 140, 3rd
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 40, 207th.
It can have Lightning Rod, Solid Rock and Reckless.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Rhyhorn → Rhydon → Rhyperior.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Rhyhorn and Rhydon are not.
What gets through
As Ground and Rock, 6 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Grass and Water land for quadruple. It
resists 5 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
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 Rhyperior takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×4), on 96.8% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×4), on 64.4% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×4), on 97.8% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Rhyperior reaches
101 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
60. 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 282.8 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 120 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Rhyperior learns 128 moves in the Champions data.
91 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 19 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Rock Wrecker 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.
