# Aegislash: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Aegislash in Pokemon Champions VGC, measured from tournament match records: usage, win rate under a fitted prior, the most played build, teammates and head to head.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Corpus | Reg M-C |
| Data published | 2026-09-28 |
| This document | https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon/aegislash.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/aegislash/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `aegislash` |
| Types | Steel / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #67 |
| Usage | 0.8% |
| Teams | 90 |
| Win rate | 48.6% |
| Decided matches | 880 |

Win rate is a posterior mean under a prior fitted to the field, credited to every species on
the team rather than to this one alone. Build shares below are of the teams carrying this
species **that published a list**, which at most events is the cut and not the field.

## Most played build

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Moves | Close Combat, Poltergeist, Shadow Sneak, Wide Guard |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Stance Change |
| Nature | Adamant |
| Share of lists | 21.1% |
| Win rate | 53.0% |
| Decided matches | 201 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poltergeist | 72.2% | 49.7% |
| King’s Shield | 60.0% | 47.0% |
| Shadow Sneak | 55.6% | 48.0% |
| Wide Guard | 55.6% | 48.6% |
| Iron Head | 44.4% | 47.1% |
| Close Combat | 32.2% | 49.1% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 34.4% | 49.7% |
| Spell Tag | 22.2% | 47.8% |
| Life Orb | 13.3% | 48.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stance Change | 96.7% | 48.5% |
| No ability | 3.3% | 48.6% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 70.0% | 48.8% |
| Brave | 12.2% | 51.5% |

## Teammates

Share is of this species' own rosters: how often, when someone runs this, they run that.

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Garchomp | 44.4% | 40 | 51.9% |
| Incineroar | 37.8% | 34 | 48.5% |
| Charizard | 36.7% | 33 | 50.2% |
| Rillaboom | 34.4% | 31 | 48.5% |
| Sylveon | 28.9% | 26 | 50.1% |

## Head to head

Teams carrying this species, against teams carrying the opponent, over decided matches.
A cell is a team record, not a one-on-one simulation.

### Beats

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 49.0% | 463 |
| Sneasler | 47.6% | 319 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sneasler | 47.6% | 319 |
| Rillaboom | 49.0% | 463 |

## Related

- Every species: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon.md
- Archetypes this could belong to: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/teams.md
- The same species on the ladder: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/ladder.md
- Live JSON for this species: https://us-central1-sucker-punch-71328.cloudfunctions.net/api/pokemon/builds?name=aegislash

## Freshness and provenance

- Rendered at deploy time from the published snapshots. Snapshot stamp: 2026-09-28.
- The boards behind them republish daily, so a figure here can trail the live data by a deploy.
- The read that is never behind is the JSON API: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/api.md.
- Tournament data and ladder data are separate populations and are never blended.
- Estimator, denominators and floors: https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/method.md.
- Attribution: Sucker Punch, https://suckerpunch.gg.