What it does on the ladder
Zoroark-Hisui appears on 0.68% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 87th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Shadow Ball, on 52.3% of sets.
The item is usually Choice Scarf at 43.7%.
Every one of them runs Illusion.
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
Zoroark-Hisui is number 571 in the National Dex, a Unova Pokémon, Normal and Ghost
with a base stat total of 510 — 94th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Sp. Atk at 125, 16th
in the format; its weakest is HP at 55, 218th.
Its only ability is Illusion.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Zorua-Hisui → Zoroark-Hisui.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Zorua-Hisui is not.
What gets through
As Normal and Ghost, 1 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 2 and is immune to 3. 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 Zoroark-Hisui takes extra damage from.
- Kingambit — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Incineroar — Throat Chop (Dark, ×2), on 44.4% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 93.2% of its sets
- Mawile-Mega — Sucker Punch (Dark, ×2), on 91.6% of its sets
- Tyranitar-Mega — Knock Off (Dark, ×2), on 94.7% of its sets
- Hydreigon — Dark Pulse (Dark, ×2), on 93.2% of its sets
Against its own formes
Zoroark has 2 legal formes in this regulation and they share a
typing, so the only thing separating them is the stat line.
This one has the highest Sp. Atk at 125 and Speed at 110 of the 2.
It has the lowest HP at 55 and Attack at 100.
The others are Zoroark.
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Zoroark-Hisui reaches
178 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
130. Invested, it outruns 15 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 73 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
Zoroark-Hisui learns 80 moves in the Champions data.
45 of them do damage, across 11 of the eighteen
types, and 20 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 also has priority: Shadow Sneak 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.
