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

> Arcanine 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/arcanine.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/arcanine/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `arcanine` |
| Types | Fire |
| Usage rank | #115 |
| Usage | 0.3% |
| Teams | 28 |
| Win rate | 49.0% |
| Decided matches | 229 |

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 | Extreme Speed, Flare Blitz, Howl, Protect |
| Item | Sitrus Berry |
| Ability | Intimidate |
| Nature | Adamant |
| Share of lists | 21.4% |
| Win rate | 60.7% |
| Decided matches | 80 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Flare Blitz | 75.0% | 48.3% |
| Protect | 71.4% | 49.3% |
| Extreme Speed | 60.7% | 48.3% |
| Howl | 32.1% | 52.1% |
| Will-O-Wisp | 32.1% | 47.4% |
| Snarl | 28.6% | 49.3% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sitrus Berry | 46.4% | 55.3% |
| Focus Sash | 14.3% | 37.4% |
| Eject Button | 10.7% | 42.0% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intimidate | 71.4% | 52.7% |
| Rock Head | 14.3% | 33.5% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 42.9% | 51.8% |
| Jolly | 21.4% | 44.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 53.6% | 15 | 54.0% |
| Sneasler | 35.7% | 10 | 57.9% |
| Salamence | 32.1% | 9 | 45.9% |
| Kingambit | 28.6% | 8 | 57.7% |
| Baxcalibur | 25.0% | 7 | 58.2% |

## 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=arcanine

## 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.