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Watchog

Normal · 420 BST · Unova
Reg M-B legal · unmeasured
Watchog
Base stats, and where each one ranks among the 234 Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B.
Stat Base Relative size Rank
HP 60 212th
Attack 85 136th
Defense 69 179th
Sp. Atk 60 182nd
Sp. Def 69 184th
Speed 77 120th
Total 420 226th

Taking damage

×4
nothing
both types weak
×2
Fighting
super effective
×½
nothing
resisted
×¼
nothing
doubly resisted
×0
Ghost
no effect

Dealing damage

×2
nothing
your STAB hits these
×½
GhostRockSteel
these wall your STAB

Legal, but nobody plays it

Watchog is legal in Regulation M-B and did not appear often enough on the ladder to produce usage statistics. It is legal and simply out of favour, which makes it unmeasured rather than unusable.

The Pokémon itself

Watchog is number 505 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Normal with a base stat total of 420 — 226th of the 234 Pokémon legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 85, 136th in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 60, 182nd. It can have Illuminate, Keen Eye and Analytic. The Champions module tiers it UU.

It sits in a 2-stage line: Patrat → Watchog. Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Patrat is not.

What gets through

As Normal, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It resists 0 and is immune to 1. The board above has all of it. 9 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Maushold, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Audino, Ditto 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 Watchog takes extra damage from.

Speed and weight

At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Watchog reaches 141 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at 97. 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 27 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

Watchog learns 84 moves in the Champions data. 44 of them do damage, across 14 of the eighteen types, and 16 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus. Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Giga Impact at 150 base power. 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.

Where this goes next

Build

Seat Watchog in the team builder and the strip fills with everything the other five still have to answer for.

Damage

Roll its Attack of 85 against any defender, spread and item, using Smogon's own engine.