What it does on the ladder
Toxapex appears on 5.1% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 29th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Toxic, on 98.7% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 97.8%.
The ability is split: Regenerator on 98.8%, Merciless on 1.1% and Limber 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
Toxapex is number 748 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Poison and Water
with a base stat total of 495 — 131st of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 152, 6th
in the format; its weakest is Speed at 35, 213th.
It can have Merciless, Limber and Regenerator.
The Champions module tiers it OU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Mareanie → Toxapex.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Mareanie is not.
What gets through
As Poison and Water, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 8. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Qwilfish.
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 Toxapex takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 98.6% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×2), on 50.5% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 73.4% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Toxapex reaches
95 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
55. Invested, it outruns 0 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 14.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 40 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Toxapex learns 76 moves in the Champions data.
42 of them do damage, across 10 of the eighteen
types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Gunk Shot at 120 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.
