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

> Gallade 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/gallade.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/gallade/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `gallade` |
| Types | Psychic / Fighting |
| Usage rank | #65 |
| Usage | 1.0% |
| Teams | 108 |
| Win rate | 48.5% |
| Decided matches | 1,004 |

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 | Psycho Cut, Sacred Sword, Trick Room, Wide Guard |
| Item | Sitrus Berry |
| Ability | Sharpness |
| Nature | Brave |
| Share of lists | 19.4% |
| Win rate | 47.6% |
| Decided matches | 168 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sacred Sword | 97.2% | 48.2% |
| Psycho Cut | 91.7% | 48.6% |
| Trick Room | 62.0% | 47.5% |
| Wide Guard | 59.3% | 46.4% |
| Protect | 26.9% | 47.6% |
| Leaf Blade | 15.7% | 47.4% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sitrus Berry | 22.2% | 46.2% |
| White Herb | 19.4% | 44.1% |
| Life Orb | 18.5% | 51.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sharpness | 96.3% | 48.1% |
| Justified | 1.9% | 47.1% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brave | 52.8% | 48.4% |
| Adamant | 37.0% | 49.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 62.0% | 67 | 47.3% |
| Hatterene | 45.4% | 49 | 48.5% |
| Torkoal | 32.4% | 35 | 47.7% |
| Armarouge | 30.6% | 33 | 47.0% |
| Camerupt | 26.9% | 29 | 48.1% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 50.4% | 321 |
| Salamence | 48.4% | 349 |
| Sneasler | 47.8% | 464 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 46.9% | 518 |
| Sneasler | 47.8% | 464 |
| Salamence | 48.4% | 349 |

## 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=gallade

## 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.