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

> Beartic 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/beartic.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/beartic/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `beartic` |
| Types | Ice |
| Usage rank | #187 |
| Usage | 0.1% |
| Teams | 6 |
| Win rate | 49.8% |
| Decided matches | 47 |

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, Icicle Crash, Protect, Rock Slide |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | Slush Rush |
| Nature | Jolly |
| Share of lists | 33.3% |
| Win rate | 52.6% |
| Decided matches | 21 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Icicle Crash | 83.3% | 52.7% |
| Close Combat | 66.7% | 51.4% |
| Protect | 66.7% | 52.8% |
| Liquidation | 33.3% | 49.3% |
| Rock Slide | 33.3% | 51.9% |
| Avalanche | 16.7% | 48.4% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Orb | 50.0% | 51.5% |
| Focus Sash | 33.3% | 50.9% |
| Bright Powder | 16.7% | 48.6% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Slush Rush | 50.0% | 56.8% |
| Snow Cloak | 33.3% | 46.7% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 33.3% | 50.9% |
| Jolly | 33.3% | 51.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abomasnow | 50.0% | 3 | 50.9% |
| Alolan Ninetales | 33.3% | 2 | 48.0% |
| Aurorus | 33.3% | 2 | 50.9% |
| Baxcalibur | 33.3% | 2 | 52.6% |
| Weavile | 33.3% | 2 | 52.6% |

## 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=beartic

## 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.