What it does on the ladder
Sableye appears on 2.1% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 52nd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Encore, on 62.3% of sets.
The item is usually Light Clay at 43%.
The ability is split: Prankster on 99.9%, Keen Eye on 0.1% and Stall on 0%.
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
Sableye is number 302 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Dark and Ghost
with a base stat total of 380 — 231st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 75, 159th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 50, 191st.
It can have Keen Eye, Stall and Prankster.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Dark and Ghost, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1 and is immune to 3. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Spiritomb.
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 Sableye takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×2), on 66.7% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Play Rough (Fairy, ×2), on 99.3% of its sets
- Primarina — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 94.6% of its sets
- Clefable — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 90.1% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Sableye reaches
112 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
70. 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 11 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
Sableye learns 140 moves in the Champions data.
74 of them do damage, across 17 of the eighteen
types, and 20 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 Focus Punch at 150.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3, Feint at +2 and Sucker Punch 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.
