# Shadow Rider Calyrex: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Shadow Rider Calyrex 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 | every Champions format published here |
| Data published | 2026-09-28 |
| This document | https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon/calyrex-shadow-rider.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/calyrex-shadow-rider/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `calyrex-shadow-rider` |
| Types | Psychic / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #259 |
| Usage | 0.0% |
| Teams | 3 |
| Win rate | 49.4% |
| Decided matches | 4 |

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 | Astral Barrage, Pollen Puff, Protect, Psychic |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | As One |
| Nature | Unknown |
| Share of lists | 33.3% |
| Win rate | n/a |
| Decided matches | 0 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Astral Barrage | 100.0% | 41.2% |
| Protect | 100.0% | 41.2% |
| Psychic | 66.7% | 44.9% |
| Calm Mind | 33.3% | 44.9% |
| Draining Kiss | 33.3% | 44.9% |
| Encore | 33.3% | 44.9% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Covert Cloak | 33.3% | 44.9% |
| Focus Sash | 33.3% | 44.9% |
| Life Orb | 33.3% | n/a |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| As One | 100.0% | 44.9% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 66.7% | 44.9% |
| Timid | 33.3% | 44.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dragonite | 66.7% | 2 | 41.2% |
| Amoonguss | 33.3% | 1 | 44.9% |
| Chi-Yu | 33.3% | 1 | n/a |
| Chien-Pao | 33.3% | 1 | 44.9% |
| Dondozo | 33.3% | 1 | n/a |

## 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=calyrex-shadow-rider

## 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.