What it does on the ladder
Simisage appears on 0.03% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 230th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 100% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 92.1%.
The ability is split: Overgrow on 99.1% and Gluttony on 0.9%.
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
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, 43rd
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 63, 203rd.
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, Leafeon, Sceptile, 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 91.1% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 73.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 66.2% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.6% of its sets
- Venusaur — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 92.6% 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 11 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.
