Simisage

Base stats, and where each one ranks among the 234 Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B.
Stat	Base	Rank
HP	75	141st
Attack	98	97th
Defense	63	204th
Sp. Atk	98	86th
Sp. Def	63	204th
Speed	101	45th
Total	498	129th

Legal, but nobody plays it

Simisage 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

Simisage is number 512 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Grass with a base stat total of 498 — 129th of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 101, 45th in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 63, 204th. It can have Gluttony and Overgrow. The Champions module tiers it UU.

It sits in a 2-stage line: Pansage → Simisage. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pansage is not.

What gets through

As Grass, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It resists 4. The board above has all of it. 5 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Tsareena, Serperior, Sceptile, Leafeon, Meganium.

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 Simisage takes extra damage from.

Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 63% 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
Aerodactyl-Mega — Dual Wingbeat (Flying, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets

Speed and weight

At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Simisage reaches 168 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 121. Invested, it outruns 13 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 30.5 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

Simisage learns 77 moves in the Champions data. 44 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen types, and 10 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus. Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Leaf Storm at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Focus Punch at 150. It also has priority: 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.

Taking damage