Incineroar

Popular pick

fire dark

Strategies

Aggro Hyper Offense Control Setup Trick Room

What it does

The most-used Pokémon in Reg M-A. Fake Out flinches one opponent on turn 1, Intimidate drops both opponents' Attack just by switching in, and Parting Shot exits while lowering both stats again. It defines the tempo of every doubles game.

Why it's threatening

Nearly every team starts with Incineroar — expect a Fake Out every time it enters fresh. Even after the Fake Out is spent, Parting Shot cycles back in a fresh attacker while dropping your stats, and every re-entry triggers another Intimidate. It snowballs Attack debuffs across the whole game.

How to stop it

Meta answers

Garchomp

dragon ground

Rotom-Wash

electric water

Kingambit

dark steel

Ground moves (Earthquake) are the cleanest KO. Water moves deal 2×. Abilities like Defiant or Competitive convert Intimidate into an Attack boost — bring those to punish the cycle (Kingambit's Defiant turns each Intimidate switch-in into a free +2 Attack). Bulky Pokémon that threaten KOs on re-entry force it to stay in and eat damage instead of cycling out.

Found in these teams

Aggro

Constant pressure from turn one — win before the opponent gets going.

Hyper Offense

Six attackers, no dead weight — tempo and raw power win games.

Control

Redirect, pivot, and chip — out-resource the opponent turn by turn.

Setup

Protect your sweeper for two turns, then nothing survives.

Trick Room

Flip the speed game — your slow, powerful Pokémon suddenly move first.