What it does on the ladder
Tinkaton appears on 0.56% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 89th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 98.1% of sets.
The item is usually Shuca Berry at 30.9%.
The ability is split: Mold Breaker on 88.7%, Own Tempo on 11.1% and Pickpocket on 0.2%.
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
Tinkaton is number 959 in the National Dex, a Paldea Pokémon, Fairy and Steel
with a base stat total of 506 — 107th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Def at 105, 33rd
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 70, 143rd.
It can have Mold Breaker, Own Tempo and Pickpocket.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Tinkatink → Tinkatuff → Tinkaton.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Tinkatink and Tinkatuff are not.
What gets through
As Fairy and Steel, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 9 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Klefki, Mawile.
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 Tinkaton takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.1% of its sets
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.6% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 83.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Tinkaton reaches
160 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
114. Invested, it outruns 10 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 112.8 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
Tinkaton learns 54 moves in the Champions data.
29 of them do damage, across 11 of the eighteen
types, and 7 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Gigaton Hammer at 160 base power.
It also has priority: Fake Out at +3 and Feint at +2.
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.
