What it does on the ladder
Typhlosion appears on 0.03% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 239th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Eruption, on 100% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 56.3%.
The ability is split: Flash Fire on 94.3% and Blaze on 5.7%.
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
Typhlosion is number 157 in the National Dex, a Johto Pokémon, Fire
with a base stat total of 534 — 29th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 109, 47th
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 78, 133rd.
It can have Blaze and Flash Fire.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Cyndaquil → Quilava → Typhlosion.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Cyndaquil and Quilava are not.
What gets through
As Fire, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. 5 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Torkoal, Ninetales, Arcanine, Flareon, Simisear.
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 Typhlosion takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.1% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.8% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Water Spout (Water, ×2), on 90.6% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 71.1% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.4% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Wave Crash (Water, ×2), on 94.1% of its sets
Against its own formes
Typhlosion has 2 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest HP at 78 and Speed at 100 of the 2.
It has the lowest Sp. Atk at 109.
The others are Typhlosion-Hisui.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Typhlosion reaches
167 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
120. Invested, it outruns 10 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 79.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 80 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Typhlosion learns 104 moves in the Champions data.
69 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen
types, and 20 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Blast Burn at 150 base power.
It also has priority: Quick Attack at +1.
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.
