What it does on the ladder
Tsareena appears on 1.3% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 61st of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Triple Axel, on 92.3% of sets.
The item is usually Wide Lens at 57.6%.
The ability is split: Queenly Majesty on 98.4%, Leaf Guard on 1.2% and Sweet Veil on 0.5%.
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
Tsareena is number 763 in the National Dex, a Alola Pokémon, Grass
with a base stat total of 510 — 93rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 120, 32nd
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 50, 208th.
It can have Leaf Guard, Queenly Majesty and Sweet Veil.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Bounsweet → Steenee → Tsareena.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Bounsweet and Steenee are not.
What gets through
As Grass, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. 5 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Serperior, Simisage, Leafeon, Sceptile, Meganium.
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 Tsareena takes extra damage from.
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.1% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×2), on 73.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Staraptor-Mega — Brave Bird (Flying, ×2), on 66.2% of its sets
- Delphox-Mega — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.6% of its sets
- Venusaur — Sludge Bomb (Poison, ×2), on 92.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Tsareena reaches
136 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
92. Invested, it outruns 6 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 21.4 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
Tsareena learns 78 moves in the Champions data.
40 of them do damage, across 9 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Leaf Storm at 130 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.
