What it does on the ladder
Weavile appears on 0.81% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 78th of the 277 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Fake Out, on 94.3% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 49%.
The ability is split: Pickpocket on 67.4% and Pressure on 32.6%.
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
Weavile is number 461 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Dark and Ice
with a base stat total of 510 — 94th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 125, 5th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 45, 218th.
It can have Pressure and Pickpocket.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Sneasel → Weavile.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Sneasel is not.
What gets through
As Dark and Ice, 6 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Fighting lands for quadruple. It
resists 3 and is immune to 1. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
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 Weavile takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Iron Head (Steel, ×2), on 56.7% of its sets
- Incineroar — Flare Blitz (Fire, ×2), on 91.1% of its sets
- Garchomp — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 84% of its sets
- Sneasler — Close Combat (Fighting, ×4), on 99.9% of its sets
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.9% of its sets
- Whimsicott — Moonblast (Fairy, ×2), on 96.7% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Weavile reaches
194 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
145. Invested, it outruns 17 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 34 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
Weavile learns 115 moves in the Champions data.
71 of them do damage, across 13 of the eighteen
types, and 22 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 Focus Punch at 150.
It also has priority: Upper Hand at +3, Fake Out at +3 and Feint at +2.
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.
