What it does on the ladder
Scrafty appears on 0.46% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 104th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 98.5% of sets.
The item is usually Chople Berry at 29.2%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 93.8%, Moxie on 5.4% and Shed Skin on 0.8%.
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
Scrafty is number 560 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Dark and Fighting
with a base stat total of 488 — 161st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 115, 30th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 45, 220th.
It can have Shed Skin, Moxie and Intimidate.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Scraggy → Scrafty.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Scraggy is not.
What gets through
As Dark and Fighting, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fairy lands for quadruple. It
resists 3 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Pangoro.
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 Scrafty takes extra damage from.
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×4), on 93.9% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×4), on 95.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Grimmsnarl — Spirit Break (Fairy, ×4), on 59.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Scrafty reaches
121 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
78. Invested, it outruns 1 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 30 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Scrafty learns 109 moves in the Champions data.
65 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 23 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Focus Punch at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3 and Fake Out at +3.
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.
