What it does on the ladder
Whimsicott appears on 22.5% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 7th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Tailwind, on 98.9% of sets.
The item is usually Focus Sash at 73.7%.
The ability is split: Prankster on 99.8%, Chlorophyll on 0.2% and Infiltrator 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
Whimsicott is number 547 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Grass and Fairy
with a base stat total of 480 — 183rd of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Speed at 116, 14th
in the format; its weakest is HP at 60, 197th.
It can have Prankster, Infiltrator and Chlorophyll.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Cottonee → Whimsicott.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Cottonee is not.
What gets through
As Grass and Fairy, 5 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Poison lands for quadruple. It
resists 6 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 Whimsicott 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
- Charizard-Mega-Y — Heat Wave (Fire, ×2), on 99.2% of its sets
- Sneasler — Dire Claw (Poison, ×4), on 63% of its sets
- Archaludon — Flash Cannon (Steel, ×2), on 94.9% of its sets
- Pelipper — Hurricane (Flying, ×2), on 98.1% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Whimsicott reaches
184 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
136. Invested, it outruns 16 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 6.6 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 20 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Whimsicott learns 71 moves in the Champions data.
30 of them do damage, across 8 of the eighteen
types, and 12 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Solar Beam at 120 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
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.
