What it does on the ladder
Vanilluxe appears on 0.84% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 75th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Blizzard, on 98.3% of sets.
The item is usually Never-Melt Ice at 66.5%.
The ability is split: Snow Warning on 98.4%, Ice Body on 1.5% and Weak Armor on 0.2%.
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
Vanilluxe is number 584 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Ice
with a base stat total of 535 — 23rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 110, 35th
in the format; its weakest is HP at 71, 155th.
It can have Ice Body, Snow Warning and Weak Armor.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 3-stage line: Vanillite → Vanillish → Vanilluxe.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Vanillite and Vanillish are not.
What gets through
As Ice, 4 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 1. The board above
has all of it. 4 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Glaceon, Beartic, Glalie, Avalugg.
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 Vanilluxe takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 67.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.2% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 75.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Vanilluxe reaches
144 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
99. 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 57.5 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
Vanilluxe learns 57 moves in the Champions data.
28 of them do damage, across 6 of the eighteen
types, and 10 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Blizzard at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Explosion at 250.
It also has priority: Ice Shard 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.
