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

> Cinderace 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/cinderace.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/cinderace/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `cinderace` |
| Types | Fire |
| Usage rank | #104 |
| Usage | 0.3% |
| Teams | 34 |
| Win rate | 46.9% |
| Decided matches | 252 |

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 | High Jump Kick, Protect, Pyro Ball, Sucker Punch |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | Libero |
| Nature | Jolly |
| Share of lists | 8.8% |
| Win rate | 39.2% |
| Decided matches | 22 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pyro Ball | 97.1% | 41.2% |
| Protect | 50.0% | 44.1% |
| Sucker Punch | 32.4% | 39.6% |
| High Jump Kick | 29.4% | 48.8% |
| U-turn | 20.6% | 41.3% |
| Smack Down | 17.6% | 41.3% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 26.5% | 46.7% |
| Life Orb | 17.6% | 45.8% |
| Choice Scarf | 14.7% | 42.3% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Libero | 88.2% | 46.0% |
| Blaze | 11.8% | 46.9% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jolly | 64.7% | 44.3% |
| Adamant | 35.3% | 37.2% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 44.1% | 15 | 41.0% |
| Salamence | 35.3% | 12 | 43.1% |
| Sneasler | 29.4% | 10 | 46.0% |
| Farigiraf | 20.6% | 7 | 44.5% |
| Garchomp | 20.6% | 7 | 46.4% |

## 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=cinderace

## 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.