What it does on the ladder
Toxicroak appears on 0.06% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 218th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 92.7% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 37.1%.
The ability is split: Dry Skin on 72.5%, Poison Touch on 26.2% and Anticipation on 1.4%.
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
Toxicroak is number 454 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Poison and Fighting
with a base stat total of 490 — 153rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 106, 74th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Def at 65, 197th.
It can have Anticipation, Dry Skin and Poison Touch.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Croagunk → Toxicroak.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Croagunk is not.
What gets through
As Poison and Fighting, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Psychic lands for quadruple. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. One other legal Pokémon shares the same typing and the same board: Sneasler.
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 Toxicroak takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Psychic (Psychic, ×4), 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
- Delphox-Mega — Psychic (Psychic, ×4), on 50.5% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Toxicroak reaches
150 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
105. Invested, it outruns 11 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 44.4 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
Toxicroak learns 114 moves in the Champions data.
73 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 22 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Focus Punch at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3, 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.
