What it does on the ladder
Runerigus appears on 0.07% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 201st of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Trick Room, on 83.1% of sets.
The item is usually Colbur Berry at 28.6%.
Every one of them runs Wandering Spirit.
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
Runerigus is number 867 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Ground and Ghost
with a base stat total of 483 — 178th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 145, 9th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 30, 222nd.
Its only ability is Wandering Spirit.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Yamask-Galar → Runerigus.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Yamask-Galar is not.
What gets through
As Ground and Ghost, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 3 and is immune to 3. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Golurk.
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 Runerigus 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
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 64.4% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 91.8% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Runerigus 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 66.6 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Runerigus learns 73 moves in the Champions data.
34 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 11 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Poltergeist at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Self-Destruct at 200.
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.
