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

> Golurk 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/golurk.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/golurk/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `golurk` |
| Types | Ground / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #103 |
| Usage | 0.3% |
| Teams | 35 |
| Win rate | 48.6% |
| Decided matches | 318 |

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 | Headlong Rush, Ice Punch, Poltergeist, Protect |
| Item | Golurkite |
| Ability | No Guard |
| Nature | Adamant |
| Share of lists | 37.1% |
| Win rate | 54.4% |
| Decided matches | 154 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poltergeist | 97.1% | 47.6% |
| Protect | 88.6% | 48.5% |
| Headlong Rush | 82.9% | 49.6% |
| Ice Punch | 71.4% | 51.2% |
| Dynamic Punch | 14.3% | 37.6% |
| High Horsepower | 14.3% | 39.5% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Golurkite | 97.1% | 47.5% |
| Life Orb | 2.9% | 30.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| No Guard | 60.0% | 48.4% |
| Iron Fist | 37.1% | 48.4% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brave | 51.4% | 45.8% |
| Adamant | 48.6% | 49.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 65.7% | 23 | 51.5% |
| Torkoal | 57.1% | 20 | 51.9% |
| Farigiraf | 48.6% | 17 | 49.9% |
| Armarouge | 40.0% | 14 | 50.1% |
| Hatterene | 25.7% | 9 | 47.9% |

## 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=golurk

## 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.