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

> Basculegion 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/basculegion.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/basculegion/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `basculegion` |
| Types | Water / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #7 |
| Usage | 19.9% |
| Teams | 2,233 |
| Win rate | 48.4% |
| Decided matches | 21,770 |

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 | Aqua Jet, Last Respects, Protect, Wave Crash |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | Adaptability |
| Nature | Adamant |
| Share of lists | 28.6% |
| Win rate | 51.0% |
| Decided matches | 6,585 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Last Respects | 98.3% | 48.3% |
| Wave Crash | 94.2% | 48.5% |
| Aqua Jet | 90.6% | 48.6% |
| Protect | 58.0% | 48.5% |
| Flip Turn | 40.1% | 47.9% |
| Liquidation | 4.1% | 46.0% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Choice Scarf | 39.6% | 48.0% |
| Life Orb | 38.9% | 49.1% |
| Mystic Water | 12.8% | 47.0% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adaptability | 94.3% | 48.4% |
| Swift Swim | 4.1% | 47.6% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 57.7% | 49.2% |
| Jolly | 39.7% | 47.2% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sneasler | 55.0% | 1,229 | 47.7% |
| Rillaboom | 49.2% | 1,098 | 49.4% |
| Salamence | 38.7% | 865 | 49.6% |
| Kingambit | 35.6% | 794 | 50.4% |
| Incineroar | 26.9% | 600 | 49.6% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lucario | 52.3% | 1,231 |
| Whimsicott | 51.9% | 1,315 |
| Blaziken | 51.8% | 352 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kommo-o | 43.6% | 396 |
| Gengar | 44.0% | 901 |
| Archaludon | 45.0% | 2,582 |

## 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=basculegion

## 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.