What it does on the ladder
Toucannon appears on 0.03% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 234th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Bullet Seed, on 96.8% of sets.
The item is usually King's Rock at 50.4%.
The ability is split: Skill Link on 96.9%, Sheer Force on 2.3% and Keen Eye on 0.8%.
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
Toucannon is number 733 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Normal and Flying
with a base stat total of 485 — 171st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 120, 38th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 60, 178th.
It can have Keen Eye, Skill Link and Sheer Force.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Pikipek → Trumbeak → Toucannon.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Pikipek and Trumbeak are not.
What gets through
As Normal and Flying, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. 2 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Staraptor, Pidgeot.
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 Toucannon takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 84% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 44.8% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Zap Cannon (Electric, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Froslass-Mega — Blizzard (Ice, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.4% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Toucannon reaches
123 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
80. 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 26 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Toucannon learns 71 moves in the Champions data.
44 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 27 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.
