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Scolipede

Bug · Poison · 485 BST · Unova
Reg M-B legal · unmeasured
Scolipede
Base stats, and where each one ranks among the 234 Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B.
Stat Base Relative size Rank
HP 60 211th
Attack 100 95th
Defense 89 84th
Sp. Atk 55 199th
Sp. Def 69 183rd
Speed 112 18th
Total 485 175th

Taking damage

×4
nothing
both types weak
×2
FireFlyingPsychicRock
super effective
×½
BugFairyPoison
resisted
×¼
FightingGrass
doubly resisted
×0
nothing
no effect

Dealing damage

×2
DarkFairyGrassPsychic
your STAB hits these
×½
GhostPoisonSteel
these wall your STAB

Legal, but nobody plays it

Scolipede is legal in Regulation M-B and did not appear often enough on the ladder to produce usage statistics. It is legal and simply out of favour, which makes it unmeasured rather than unusable.

The Pokémon itself

Scolipede is number 545 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Bug and Poison with a base stat total of 485 — 175th of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 112, 18th in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 55, 199th. It can have Poison Point, Swarm and Speed Boost. The Champions module tiers it UU.

It sits in a 3-stage line: Venipede → Whirlipede → Scolipede. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Venipede and Whirlipede are not.

What gets through

As Bug and Poison, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It resists 5. The board above has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Ariados, Beedrill.

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 Scolipede takes extra damage from.

Speed and weight

At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Scolipede reaches 180 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 132. Invested, it outruns 14 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 200.5 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

Scolipede learns 78 moves in the Champions data. 53 of them do damage, across 11 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 Gunk Shot at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150. 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.

Where this goes next

Build

Seat Scolipede in the team builder and the strip fills with everything the other five still have to answer for.

Damage

Roll its Attack of 100 against any defender, spread and item, using Smogon's own engine.