Tadbulb counters

Gen 9 Ultramixandmega · Sorted by reliability score · Smogon · Mar 2026 - May 2026

Tadbulb
#0938 Tadbulb
Electric
USAGE 2.4% #46
ABILITYSand Stream
BASE STATS
HP 61
ATK 31
DEF 41
SPA 59
SPD 35
SPE 45
BST272
TYPE MATCHUPS
2×
Ground
½×
ElectricFlyingSteel
Moves
Tail Glow 70.5% Tachyon Cutter 60.3% Torch Song 58.7% Thunderbolt 45.8% Muddy Water 39.8% Thunderclap 30.7% Taunt 20.9% Weather Ball 19.4%
Items
Garchompite Z 23.0% Latiasite 22.1% Throat Spray 17.4% Glimmoranite 13.1% Slowbronite 10.3% Glalitite 5.4% Lucarionite 5.3% Blue Orb 1.0%
Abilities
Sand Stream21.4%Magic Guard21.0%Drought18.4%Unburden17.4%Unaware10.3%Electric Surge5.7%Earth Eater1.6%Download1.6%
Common Teammates
Smeargle42.7%Steenee31.8%Sudowoodo26.9%Ralts25.1%Bounsweet24.2%Shroodle23.2%Mankey21.7%Grotle21.1%

Checks & Counters

Ranked by reliability — blends KO rate with how often each Pokémon is matched up.

This Pokémon doesn't have enough usage for Smogon to compute meaningful Checks & Counters. Only the most-used Pokémon in a format receive this data.

Ranked #46 with 2.36% usage. Sorted by reliability score.