What it does on the ladder
Scolipede appears on 0.05% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 229th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 98.6% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 57.8%.
The ability is split: Speed Boost on 99.4%, Poison Point on 0.6% and Swarm 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
Scolipede is number 545 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Bug and Poison
with a base stat total of 485 — 171st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 112, 17th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 55, 192nd.
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.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
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 16 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.
