What it does on the ladder
Sneasler appears on 31.4% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 5th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Close Combat, on 99.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 53.6%.
The ability is split: Unburden on 69.1%, Poison Touch on 30.5% and Pressure on 0.4%.
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
Sneasler is number 903 in the National Dex, a Galar Pokémon, Fighting and Poison
with a base stat total of 510 — 91st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 130, 12th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 40, 225th.
It can have Pressure, Unburden and Poison Touch.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Sneasel-Hisui → Sneasler.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Sneasel-Hisui is not.
What gets through
As Fighting and Poison, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Psychic lands for quadruple. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Toxicroak.
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 Sneasler takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×4), on 72.4% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 66.2% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×4), on 51.3% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 99% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Sneasler reaches
189 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
140. Invested, it outruns 15 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 43 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
Sneasler learns 72 moves in the Champions data.
45 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 16 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, Fake Out at +3 and Feint at +2.
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.
