Simple Beam move usage across Smogon and VGC formats
Simple Beam (Normal · Status) — competitive usage across every Smogon and VGC format on Pokékipe. Base power, accuracy, PP, top users per format, monthly trends. Refreshed live from Pokémon Showdown's chaos JSON dump.
Simple Beam
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 15
The user’s mysterious psychic wave changes the target’s Ability to Simple.
- SV National Dex Doubles17 mon
- SV National Dex10 mon
- SV NATIONALDEXAAA9 mon
- SV Balanced Hackmons7 mon
- SV CONVERGENCE6 mon
- SV National Dex Ubers5 mon
- SV DOUBLESUU4 mon
- SV Doubles OU4 mon
- SV Anything Goes4 mon
- SV OU4 mon
- SV DOUBLESUBERS3 mon
- SV Almost Any Ability3 mon
- SV POKEBILITIESBH2 mon
- SV PU2 mon
- SV UU2 mon
- SV SKETCHMONS1 mon
- SV RU1 mon
- SV NATIONALDEXUBERSUU1 mon
- SV Ubers1 mon
- SV NATIONALDEXMONOTYPE1 mon
- SV ZU1 mon
- SV POKEBILITIESAAA1 mon
About Simple Beam across competitive formats
This page is the cross-format home for Simple Beam : rather than a single tier, it rolls up everywhere Simple Beam sees competitive play, from the Smogon singles ladders to Doubles OU and the live VGC regulations. The format tabs above jump straight to any of them, while this view answers the bigger question first : which metagames Simple Beam actually matters in, and how heavily it is leaned on in each.
Open a format and you get the full breakdown : the Pokémon that run Simple Beam and how often, the moves, items and abilities it pairs with, the EV spreads and sets built around it, and a month-over-month usage trend. Because the meta never sits still, Simple Beam can be a staple in one format and a niche pick in another, so the per-format split is where the real story lives, not a single blended number.
Every figure is derived from Smogon's public monthly usage statistics, built from millions of rated Pokémon Showdown battles and refreshed as soon as a new snapshot lands, no editorial picks, no curation, just what high-rated players are running right now. The data is free, needs no account, and is also available through Pokékipe's public read API for analysts and team-builders.
FAQ · SV POKEBILITIESBH
What's the most-used Pokémon in SV POKEBILITIESBH?
Blissey leads SV POKEBILITIESBH with a 48.4% usage rate in July 2026, followed by Chansey (46.5%) and Dondozo (46.3%).
Which Pokémon rose the most this month?
Blaziken climbed the fastest in SV POKEBILITIESBH this July 2026, with a +45.8% change in usage.
How many battles inform these SV POKEBILITIESBH stats?
27 rated battles played on Pokémon Showdown ladder at ELO 1760+ during July 2026. Aggregated monthly from Smogon's public chaos JSON dump.
Where does the SV POKEBILITIESBH data come from?
Pokémon Showdown's monthly ladder snapshot (chaos JSON), refreshed each month. For VGC formats, official tournament results are also surfaced when available via Pokémon Company's Pokedata feed.
When was the SV POKEBILITIESBH data last updated?
The SV POKEBILITIESBH usage snapshot above reflects July 2026. New monthly data drops a few days after the end of each month.