What it does on the ladder
Snorlax appears on 0.50% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 98th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 88.8% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 69.7%.
The ability is split: Thick Fat on 98.8%, Gluttony on 0.6% and Immunity on 0.6%.
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
Snorlax is number 143 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Normal
with a base stat total of 540 — 19th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 160, 1st
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 30, 219th.
It can have Immunity, Thick Fat and Gluttony.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Munchlax → Snorlax.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Munchlax is not.
What gets through
As Normal, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 0 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. 9 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Maushold, Kangaskhan, Ditto, Audino, Watchog and others.
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 Snorlax takes extra damage from.
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 34.2% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Body Press (Fighting, ×2), on 38.5% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Focus Blast (Fighting, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Annihilape — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 65.3% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Snorlax reaches
90 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
50. Invested, it outruns 0 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 460 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
Snorlax learns 138 moves in the Champions data.
86 of them do damage, across 15 of the eighteen
types, and 28 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Self-Destruct at 200 base power.
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.
