Move type frequency - Uber edition (November 2009)

[zarator]

For those who wonder what this thread is about, read here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63445

There are the statistics for the move types used during November on the Uber ladder:

Special Dragon: 22,30%
Physical Dragon: 21,82%
Special Electric: 20,08%
Special Ice: 16,48%
Physical Normal: 15,96%
Special Fire: 15,84%
Special Water: 15,70%
Physical Ground: 14,62%
Physical Dark: 10,13%
Physical Fighting: 8,50%
Physical Bug: 7,40%
Physical Steel: 6,57%
Special Grass: 6,33%
Special Fighting: 5,93%
Physical Fire: 5,66%
Physical Rock: 5,49%
Special Ghost: 4,42%
Special Dark: 4,05%
Physical Flying: 3,14%
Physical Ghost: 2,95%
Physical Water: 2,57%
Special Flying: 2,49%
Physical Ice: 2,34%
Special Ground: 1,71%
Special Bug: 1,15%
Special Psychic: 0,99%
Physical Electric: 0,23%
Physical Grass: 0,22%
Special Rock: 0,13%
Special Poison: 0,08%
Special Steel: 0,07%
Special Normal: NON EXISTANT
Physical Poison: NON EXISTANT
Physical Psychic: NON EXISTANT

And, below, the moves which contributed to the usage of every type, ordered for usage (moves in italics got less than 1% usage)

Physical Normal: Extremespeed, Explosion, Selfdestruct,[I] Body Slam, Return, Fake Out, Quick Attack, Giga Impact, Facade[/I]
Special Normal: NON EXISTANT
Physical Fire: Sacred Fire,Fire Punch, [I]Fire Fang, Flare Blitz[/I]
Special Fire: Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Hidden Power, Overheat,[I] Heat Wave, Lava Plume[/I]
Physical Water: Waterfall, Aqua Tail, [I]Aqua Jet[/I]
Special Water: Surf, Water Spout, [I]Hydro Pump[/I]
Physical Electric: [I]Thunderpunch[/I]
Special Electric: Thunder, Thunderbolt,[I] Charge Beam, Discharge, Hidden Power[/I]
Physical Grass: [I]Wood Hammer,[/I] [I]Seed Bomb[/I]
Special Grass: Grass Knot, Seed Flare, [I]Leaf Storm, Hidden Power, Solarbeam[/I]
Physical Ice: Ice Punch, [I]Ice Shard, Ice Fang[/I]
Special Ice: Ice Beam, Hidden Power, [I]Blizzard[/I]
Physical Fighting: Superpower, Close Combat, [I]Brick Break,[/I] [I]Focus Punch, Low Kick, Mach Punch, Dynamicpunch, Cross Chop[/I]
Special Fighting: Aura Sphere, Focus Blast, [I]Hidden Power[/I]
Physical Poison: NON EXISTANT
Special Poison: [I]Sludge Bomb[/I]
Physical Ground: Earthquake
Special Ground: Earth Power
Physical Flying: Brave Bird, [I]Aerial Ace, Bounce, Drill Peck[/I]
Special Flying: Air Slash, [I]Aeroblast[/I]
Physical Psychic: NON EXISTANT
Special Psychic: [I]Psychic,[/I] [I]Psycho Boost[/I]
Physical Bug: U-turn, X-Scissor, [I]Bug Bite, Megahorn[/I]
Special Bug: [I]Signal Beam, Bug Buzz[/I]
Physical Rock: Stone Edge, [I]Rock Slide[/I]
Special Rock: [I]Hidden Power[/I]
Physical Ghost: Shadow Sneak, [I]Shadow Force, Shadow Claw[/I]
Special Ghost: Shadow Ball
Physical Dragon: Outrage, Dragon Claw
Special Dragon: Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, Spacial Rend
Physical Dark: Pursuit, Payback, Crunch, [I]Night Slash, Punishment, Sucker Punch[/I]
Special Dark: Dark Pulse
Physical Steel: Bullet Punch, [I]Iron Head, Gyro Ball, Meteor Mash[/I]
Special Steel: [I]Flash Cannon[/I]

Enjoy

 

[X-Act]

Interesting how Psychic moves are barely used at all in Ubers.

Thanks for these.

 

[zarator]

Interesting how Psychic moves are barely used at all in Ubers.

Thanks for these.

Well, Psychic is among the worst attacks in Ubers due to the ovrabundance of Psychic types and the fact that Poison and Fighting types are non existant.

 

[Darkmalice]

Dragon-type attacks are the most common, both specially and physically? I guess this shows just how dominate Dragons are in Ubers. And physical Dragon too? It's probably because of Rayquaza, Garchomp,a nd so many Groudon using Dragon Claw and Palkia/Dialga using Outrage. Plus I've seen many Outrage Giratina-O recently.

 

[zarator]

Dragon-type attacks are the most common, both specially and physically? I guess this shows just how dominate Dragons are in Ubers. And physical Dragon too? It's probably because of Rayquaza, Garchomp,a nd so many Groudon using Dragon Claw and Palkia/Dialga using Outrage. Plus I've seen many Outrage Giratina-O recently.

If you think about it, it is not so strange. Dragon hits supereffectively some notable ubers (Giratina, Palkia, Lati twins) supereffectively, and has few viable resistors in the tier (the only 2 enough common to get real mention are Scizor and Forretress). They are so "low risk/high gain" moves, it's no wonder they are spammed all over the place.