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

> Delphox 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/delphox.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/delphox/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `delphox` |
| Types | Fire / Psychic |
| Usage rank | #40 |
| Usage | 3.5% |
| Teams | 390 |
| Win rate | 49.0% |
| Decided matches | 3,754 |

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, Nasty Plot, Protect, Psychic |
| Item | Delphoxite |
| Ability | Blaze |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 40.8% |
| Win rate | 51.7% |
| Decided matches | 1,582 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heat Wave | 96.4% | 49.2% |
| Protect | 95.1% | 49.4% |
| Nasty Plot | 71.0% | 50.2% |
| Psychic | 66.4% | 49.6% |
| Psyshock | 19.7% | 48.3% |
| Expanding Force | 12.6% | 46.9% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Delphoxite | 95.9% | 49.1% |
| No item | 1.5% | 49.5% |
| Charcoal | 0.5% | 53.9% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blaze | 85.9% | 49.0% |
| Magician | 7.7% | 49.1% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 86.7% | 49.6% |
| Modest | 10.3% | 46.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sneasler | 60.8% | 237 | 49.4% |
| Incineroar | 48.5% | 189 | 51.9% |
| Rillaboom | 42.3% | 165 | 48.6% |
| Kingambit | 39.5% | 154 | 51.0% |
| Sinistcha | 33.6% | 131 | 50.5% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sylveon | 51.7% | 424 |
| Staraptor | 51.3% | 309 |
| Indeedee ♀ | 50.8% | 676 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Milotic | 45.8% | 455 |
| Tyranitar | 46.5% | 344 |
| Sneasler | 46.8% | 1,678 |

## 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=delphox

## 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.