What it does on the ladder
Torterra appears on 0.05% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 228th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Shell Smash, on 54.3% of sets.
The item is usually White Herb at 56.1%.
The ability is split: Shell Armor on 71.3% and Overgrow on 28.7%.
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
Torterra is number 389 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Grass and Ground
with a base stat total of 525 — 68th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 109, 68th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 56, 185th.
It can have Overgrow and Shell Armor.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Turtwig → Grotle → Torterra.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Turtwig and Grotle are not.
What gets through
As Grass and Ground, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Ice lands for quadruple. It
resists 2 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 Torterra takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% 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
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.5% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Torterra reaches
118 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
76. 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 310 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 120 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Torterra learns 103 moves in the Champions data.
57 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 25 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Frenzy Plant 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.
