What it does on the ladder
Tauros-Paldea-Blaze appears on 0.04% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 234th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Close Combat, on 79.9% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 37.6%.
The ability is split: Intimidate on 56.6%, Anger Point on 43.3% and Cud Chew on 0%.
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-Blaze is number 128 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Fighting and Fire
with a base stat total of 490 — 156th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 110, 64th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 30, 233rd.
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 Fire, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. 3 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Blaziken, Infernape, Emboar.
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-Blaze takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 54.4% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 83.4% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Dual Wingbeat (Flying, ×2), on 91.2% 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-Aqua, Tauros-Paldea-Combat and Tauros.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Tauros-Paldea-Blaze 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 85 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-Paldea-Blaze learns 60 moves in the Champions data.
43 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 10 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Overheat at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
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.
