What it does on the ladder
Swampert appears on 1.2% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 63rd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Yawn, on 88.6% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 75.5%.
The ability is split: Torrent on 92.1% and Damp on 7.9%.
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
Swampert is number 260 in the National Dex, a Hoenn Pokémon, Water and Ground
with a base stat total of 535 — 23rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 110, 57th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 60, 170th.
It can have Torrent and Damp.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Mudkip → Marshtomp → Swampert.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Mudkip and Marshtomp are not.
What gets through
As Water and Ground, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Grass lands for quadruple. It
resists 4 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
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 Swampert takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×4), on 64.4% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×4), on 97.8% of its sets
- Venusaur — Leaf Storm (Grass, ×4), on 59.2% of its sets
- Scovillain-Mega — Giga Drain (Grass, ×4), on 67% of its sets
- Venusaur-Mega — Giga Drain (Grass, ×4), on 82.9% of its sets
- Meowscarada — Flower Trick (Grass, ×4), on 99.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Swampert reaches
123 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
80. 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 81.9 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Swampert learns 117 moves in the Champions data.
75 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 26 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Hydro Cannon at 150 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.
