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

> Blaziken 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/blaziken.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/blaziken/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `blaziken` |
| Types | Fire / Fighting |
| Usage rank | #56 |
| Usage | 1.6% |
| Teams | 180 |
| Win rate | 46.0% |
| Decided matches | 1,635 |

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, Detect, Flare Blitz, Rock Slide |
| Item | Blazikenite |
| Ability | Speed Boost |
| Nature | Adamant |
| Share of lists | 32.8% |
| Win rate | 46.0% |
| Decided matches | 565 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Flare Blitz | 75.6% | 43.5% |
| Close Combat | 75.0% | 43.9% |
| Detect | 66.7% | 45.8% |
| Rock Slide | 66.1% | 44.5% |
| Protect | 31.7% | 43.0% |
| Aura Sphere | 15.0% | 49.1% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blazikenite | 72.2% | 42.7% |
| Focus Sash | 15.6% | 47.7% |
| Life Orb | 6.7% | 49.3% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Speed Boost | 95.0% | 44.9% |
| Blaze | 3.3% | 45.1% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 73.3% | 43.3% |
| Jolly | 10.6% | 43.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 49.4% | 89 | 45.1% |
| Kingambit | 45.0% | 81 | 44.8% |
| Farigiraf | 31.1% | 56 | 44.8% |
| Indeedee ♀ | 20.6% | 37 | 46.3% |
| Primarina | 20.6% | 37 | 43.6% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 44.8% | 514 |
| Gholdengo | 44.5% | 318 |
| Kingambit | 43.3% | 369 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Salamence | 40.4% | 548 |
| Basculegion | 42.3% | 352 |
| Rillaboom | 42.5% | 836 |

## 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=blaziken

## 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.