What it does on the ladder
Vaporeon appears on 0.24% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 132nd of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Ice Beam, on 90.4% of sets.
The item is usually Leftovers at 92.8%.
The ability is split: Water Absorb on 100% and Hydration 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
Vaporeon is number 134 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Water
with a base stat total of 525 — 62nd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is HP at 130, 2nd
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 60, 211th.
It can have Water Absorb and Hydration.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Eevee → Vaporeon.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Eevee is not.
What gets through
As Water, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 4. The board above
has all of it. 8 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Milotic, Politoed, Palafin, Blastoise, Clawitzer and others.
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 Vaporeon takes extra damage from.
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Solar Beam (Grass, ×2), on 64.4% of its sets
- Sinistcha — Matcha Gotcha (Grass, ×2), on 97.8% of its sets
- Farigiraf — Thunderbolt (Electric, ×2), on 44.8% of its sets
- Raichu-Mega-Y — Zap Cannon (Electric, ×2), on 99.7% of its sets
- Archaludon — Electro Shot (Electric, ×2), on 97.9% of its sets
- Venusaur — Leaf Storm (Grass, ×2), on 59.2% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Vaporeon reaches
128 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
85. Invested, it outruns 4 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 29 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
Vaporeon learns 101 moves in the Champions data.
55 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 15 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Hydro Pump at 110 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
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.
