How is the damage of Foul Play calculated?
May. 20, 2015I know it uses the targets attack stat but it says it has 95 base power. How does the move work actually?
Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.
Every attacking move takes theuser’soffensive stat into account before calculating final damage. If it’s a physical move then this stat is attack, and similarly if it’s special then special attack. Even 150 base power moves, when coming from a low offensive stat, will do negligible damage.
What Foul Play does is take theopponent’sand not theuser’sattack stat to calculate the damage. So for example a Sableye would normally rely on it’s miserly 75 attack stat when using a physical move, resulting in it doing rather low damage. But if it uses Foul Play then Sableye is firing the move off through the opponent’s attack stat, which may be higher or lower, resulting in more (or less, depending on opponent) damage. It’s great on Pokemon that do not have a great attack stat and need good ways of physical damage.
Hope I helped!
