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

> Dragonite 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/dragonite.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/dragonite/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `dragonite` |
| Types | Dragon / Flying |
| Usage rank | #43 |
| Usage | 3.4% |
| Teams | 383 |
| Win rate | 50.6% |
| Decided matches | 3,912 |

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 | Dragon Pulse, Heat Wave, Protect, Tailwind |
| Item | Dragoninite |
| Ability | Multiscale |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 15.7% |
| Win rate | 55.8% |
| Decided matches | 711 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 86.7% | 51.2% |
| Dragon Pulse | 64.8% | 52.4% |
| Heat Wave | 56.1% | 52.7% |
| Tailwind | 46.7% | 53.7% |
| Extreme Speed | 36.8% | 47.9% |
| Dragon Claw | 17.0% | 48.2% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dragoninite | 74.7% | 51.8% |
| Life Orb | 15.4% | 49.4% |
| No item | 1.8% | 50.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Multiscale | 50.9% | 49.8% |
| Inner Focus | 47.3% | 51.6% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 66.8% | 51.9% |
| Adamant | 19.6% | 48.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 56.1% | 215 | 51.6% |
| Sneasler | 54.6% | 209 | 52.1% |
| Incineroar | 45.7% | 175 | 52.8% |
| Gholdengo | 27.7% | 106 | 53.0% |
| Basculegion | 26.1% | 100 | 50.9% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Garchomp | 55.0% | 515 |
| Farigiraf | 53.9% | 566 |
| Golisopod | 53.7% | 577 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 45.6% | 619 |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 47.2% | 613 |
| Hisuian Arcanine | 48.3% | 638 |

## 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=dragonite

## 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.