Pokemon Champions Speed Tiers

Start from the threats, not your own team. Pick the Pokemon you most need to beat — the table above shows the most-used Pokemon in the current regulation — and check whether your attacker moves before it at realistic investment. If it does not, you have three options: invest more Stat Points in Speed, change your nature, or stop trying to outspeed it and plan around bulk or speed control instead.

Experienced players also “speed creep”: investing just enough to outrun other players' common spreads of the same Pokemon. The speed view in the team builder shows these breakpoints against real usage spreads, so you can creep with data instead of guessing.

Base Speed is only the starting point. A positive nature multiplies Speed by 1.1, Stat Points push the stat higher, Choice Scarf multiplies it by 1.5, and paralysis halves it. On top of that, Doubles battles revolve around speed control: Tailwind doubles a whole side's Speed, Icy Wind and Electroweb drop opponents a stage, and Trick Room makes the slowest Pokemon move first for five turns. A speed tier list that ignores these states will lie to you in half your games — toggle them in the tool to see the real order.