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

> Charizard 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/charizard.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/charizard/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `charizard` |
| Types | Fire / Flying |
| Usage rank | #19 |
| Usage | 11.2% |
| Teams | 1,261 |
| Win rate | 51.0% |
| Decided matches | 12,967 |

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 | Heat Wave, Protect, Solar Beam, Weather Ball |
| Item | Charizardite Y |
| Ability | Blaze |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 23.0% |
| Win rate | 53.4% |
| Decided matches | 3,243 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 97.1% | 51.3% |
| Heat Wave | 93.6% | 51.5% |
| Weather Ball | 86.8% | 52.2% |
| Solar Beam | 40.8% | 50.5% |
| Ancient Power | 38.9% | 50.6% |
| Hurricane | 13.7% | 54.3% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charizardite Y | 93.8% | 51.4% |
| Charizardite X | 4.0% | 45.7% |
| No item | 1.8% | 50.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blaze | 83.3% | 51.4% |
| Solar Power | 11.8% | 49.2% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 61.7% | 51.4% |
| Timid | 30.4% | 52.0% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Garchomp | 37.7% | 475 | 52.0% |
| Rillaboom | 33.8% | 426 | 50.1% |
| Sneasler | 33.1% | 417 | 49.1% |
| Kingambit | 32.8% | 413 | 51.6% |
| Venusaur | 27.3% | 344 | 51.4% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Metagross | 55.8% | 616 |
| Golisopod | 55.1% | 1,881 |
| Lucario | 55.0% | 638 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 46.5% | 2,297 |
| Gholdengo | 47.0% | 3,188 |
| Glimmora | 47.2% | 410 |

## 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=charizard

## 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.