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

> Gengar 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/gengar.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/gengar/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `gengar` |
| Types | Ghost / Poison |
| Usage rank | #35 |
| Usage | 4.6% |
| Teams | 519 |
| Win rate | 52.8% |
| Decided matches | 5,420 |

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 | Perish Song, Protect, Shadow Ball, Sludge Bomb |
| Item | Gengarite |
| Ability | Cursed Body |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 43.7% |
| Win rate | 55.5% |
| Decided matches | 2,524 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 97.3% | 53.4% |
| Shadow Ball | 96.3% | 53.4% |
| Sludge Bomb | 81.3% | 53.9% |
| Perish Song | 78.0% | 53.0% |
| Disable | 12.3% | 52.1% |
| Substitute | 10.0% | 53.1% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gengarite | 97.5% | 53.5% |
| No item | 1.5% | 52.8% |
| Bright Powder | 0.2% | 49.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cursed Body | 93.8% | 53.2% |
| Shadow Tag | 4.4% | 52.8% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 56.6% | 54.3% |
| Timid | 38.0% | 52.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 85.4% | 443 | 53.7% |
| Rillaboom | 80.7% | 419 | 53.6% |
| Politoed | 59.7% | 310 | 53.5% |
| Archaludon | 52.0% | 270 | 55.0% |
| Vivillon | 17.1% | 89 | 52.1% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Golisopod | 57.1% | 712 |
| Basculegion | 56.6% | 901 |
| Pelipper | 55.6% | 640 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 46.2% | 1,107 |
| Kingambit | 50.5% | 1,316 |
| Volcarona | 50.8% | 379 |

## 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=gengar

## 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.