What it does on the ladder
Tauros-Paldea-Aqua appears on 0.26% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 132nd of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Protect, on 92.7% of sets.
The item is usually Shell Bell at 27.7%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 61.3%, Anger Point on 37.3% and Cud Chew on 1.3%.
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-Paldea-Aqua is number 128 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Fighting and Water
with a base stat total of 490 — 149th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 110, 59th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 30, 232nd.
It can have Intimidate, Anger Point and Cud Chew.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It has no evolutions on either side; what you see is the whole line.
What gets through
As Fighting and Water, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 7. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Quaquaval.
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-Paldea-Aqua takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 82.2% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 93.9% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Floette-Mega — Dazzling Gleam (Fairy, ×2), on 95.9% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% 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 Attack at 110 and Defense at 105 of the 4.
It has the lowest Sp. Atk at 30 and Speed at 100.
The others are Tauros-Paldea-Blaze, Tauros-Paldea-Combat and Tauros.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Tauros-Paldea-Aqua reaches
167 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
120. Invested, it outruns 12 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 110 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 100 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Tauros-Paldea-Aqua learns 59 moves in the Champions data.
44 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 11 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Close Combat at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Aqua Jet at +1.
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.
