Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Frisk Management - Global Challenge 2024 III #3
9I’ve shown the top 50, then later top 75, most used Pokémon in Ranked for each month. I get my data from Pokémon HOME, the mobile app, which has information up to 150th place. If you were ever curious as to the Pokémon that just barely made their list, the ones that managed to place 150th, here are the ones for double battles, from when record-keeping began for December 2022 up to the last completed month:
December 2022: Oricorio (Baile Style)
January 2023: Crabominable
February 2023: Muk (Kantonian)
March 2023: Ditto
April 2023: Toxtricity (Amped)
May 2023: Scyther
June 2023: Cloyster
July 2023: Iron Thorns
August 2023: Moltres (Kantonian)
September 2023: Clodsire
October 2023: Toxapex
November 2023: Tauros (Aqua Breed)
December 2023: Conkeldurr
January 2024: Hydreigon
February 2024: Lycanroc (Midday)
March 2024: Lapras
You know, I remember a time when Lapras dominated both single and double battling. I don’t have to go back that far, as it was last generation, due to Lapras getting arguably the most busted G-Max Move there is! This was always hard to deal with, between G-Max Resonance always letting you set up Aurora Veil and Lapras’s general resilience.
I also noticed that this list consists of a lot of Pokémon that are in fact quite useful, but require a very high degree of thinking ahead and outmaneuvering the opponent. Ditto is the biggest one on that list, since theoretically, anything the opponent does, Ditto can do too, but winning with Ditto requires you know how to use their Pokémon better than they use their own.
Type: Double Battle
Opponent: Jordan
Battle Court: Blueberry Academy
Music: Nemona 2
My Pokémon: Klefki, Bombirdier, Froslass, Dragalge
Opponent’s Pokémon: Grimmsnarl, Thundurus (Incarnate), Ogerpon (Hearthflame), Kommo-o
That was some interesting switching around at the beginning. I’m guessing they thought Klefki would hit Grimmsnarl with a Steel-type move, but I had other plans.
Speaking of Grimmsnarl, this one is an unusual one among them in that this one has Frisk. Normally, Prankster is considered one of the best Abilities in the entire series (enough that it had to be nerfed in Generation VII by giving Dark-type Pokémon immunity to Prankster-boosted status moves), so any Pokémon with Prankster would have people lining up to make sure their Pokémon for online play has it, making it highly unusual for this example of someone turning down Prankster for Frisk.
Frisk is by all means a useful Ability too, even if some people disagree with me, who say that a particular species can be expected to hold a specific hold item, and if you know what it is, then Frisk is pointless. Pokémon HOME data, which also lists the percentages for the top 10 most common hold items for each species, indicates there’s no consensus for hold item on most species, except the glaringly obvious, like Light Clay on Alolan Ninetales or Power Herb on Archaludon.
It was also more surprising to see this Grimmsnarl forgo the usual Light Screen, Reflect, and somesuch (the Lagging Tail Trick strategy I used in the Arctovish Team gained some popularity that generation, but it’s waned since) and go straight to direct attacking. I was expecting at least a turn or two with Grimmsnarl setting things up, but considering this one has Frisk instead of Prankster, I should never have expected to see any normal Grimmsnarl strategy.
There’s also something about Bombirdier’s Rock Slide hitting Hearthflame Ogerpon but missing her partner in this event…I have no explanation.
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