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

> Dragapult 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/dragapult.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/dragapult/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `dragapult` |
| Types | Dragon / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #61 |
| Usage | 1.4% |
| Teams | 156 |
| Win rate | 49.5% |
| Decided matches | 1,409 |

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 | Draco Meteor, Protect, Shadow Ball, Will-O-Wisp |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | Infiltrator |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 26.3% |
| Win rate | 53.1% |
| Decided matches | 385 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 85.3% | 49.6% |
| Draco Meteor | 78.2% | 50.4% |
| Shadow Ball | 76.9% | 51.1% |
| Will-O-Wisp | 66.7% | 50.9% |
| Dragon Darts | 16.0% | 48.8% |
| Phantom Force | 12.2% | 48.4% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Orb | 78.8% | 51.0% |
| Focus Sash | 6.4% | 51.7% |
| Colbur Berry | 3.9% | 45.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Infiltrator | 66.7% | 49.6% |
| Clear Body | 28.2% | 49.5% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 41.7% | 51.7% |
| Timid | 35.9% | 48.8% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 54.5% | 85 | 51.4% |
| Milotic | 41.0% | 64 | 51.2% |
| Staraptor | 32.7% | 51 | 50.5% |
| Armarouge | 29.5% | 46 | 51.9% |
| Golisopod | 21.1% | 33 | 49.5% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sneasler | 51.3% | 598 |
| Rillaboom | 50.6% | 791 |
| Incineroar | 50.2% | 465 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 46.8% | 305 |
| Gholdengo | 48.4% | 407 |
| Salamence | 49.4% | 419 |

## 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=dragapult

## 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.