What it does on the ladder
Tauros appears on 0.01% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 277th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 93.6% of sets.
The item is usually Sitrus Berry at 52.5%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 43.1%, Sheer Force on 41.2% and Anger Point on 15.7%.
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
Tauros is number 128 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Normal
with a base stat total of 490 — 158th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 110, 27th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 40, 229th.
It can have Intimidate, Anger Point and Sheer Force.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
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, Snorlax, Audino, Ditto 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 Tauros takes extra damage from.
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 100% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Focus Blast (Fighting, ×2), on 94% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 33.7% of its sets
- Kommo-o — Aura Sphere (Fighting, ×2), on 95.3% of its sets
- Metagross-Mega — Body Press (Fighting, ×2), on 31.6% of its sets
Against its own formes
Tauros has 4 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest Sp. Atk at 40 and Speed at 110 of the 4.
It has the lowest Attack at 100 and Defense at 95.
The others are Tauros-Paldea-Aqua, Tauros-Paldea-Blaze and Tauros-Paldea-Combat.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Tauros reaches
178 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
130. 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 88.4 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
Tauros learns 96 moves in the Champions data.
63 of them do damage, across 15 of the eighteen
types, and 23 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact 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.
