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Sneasler

Sneasler is a sweeper ranked S-Tier in Pokémon Champions with a 34% usage rate. Primary ability: Unburden (89%). Most common item: Psychic Seed (31%). Top moves: Close Combat, Dire Claw, Fake Out, Protect.

Moves

  • Fighting Close Combat 49%
  • Poison Dire Claw 39%
  • Normal Fake Out 28%
  • Normal Protect 20%
  • Rock Rock Slide 11%
  • Fighting Coaching 8%

Ability

Unburden 89%

Item

Psychic Seed 31%

EV Spread

Adamant · 32 Atk / 1 SpD / 32 Spe

Weaknesses

Flying Psychic Ground

Best Teammates

BasculegionKingambitGarchompAerodactyl

How Sneasler plays

The format's defining offensive threat

Sneasler is built around Unburden, which doubles its Speed the moment its held item is consumed. In Regulation M-C that trigger is a terrain seed: Psychic Seed and Grassy Seed are its two most-held items (31% and 27%), and both are spent the instant a partner sets terrain — female Indeedee or Rillaboom, the two Pokémon it is most often paired with. White Herb is the third option, spending itself on the first stat drop instead, which turns an opposing Intimidate into the activation.

The standard set is Close Combat, Dire Claw, Fake Out and Protect off 130 Attack and base 120 Speed. Counterplay is structural: Wide Guard blunts the Close Combat reliance, Intimidate cycles weaken the opening damage, and Psychic Terrain from the other side blocks the priority Sneasler's partners rely on. Once Unburden is up, almost nothing in the format outruns it — removing Sneasler before activation is the only reliable answer.

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