# Hisuian Goodra: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Hisuian Goodra 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/goodra-hisui.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/goodra-hisui/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `goodra-hisui` |
| Types | Steel / Dragon |
| Usage rank | #122 |
| Usage | 0.2% |
| Teams | 23 |
| Win rate | 50.2% |
| Decided matches | 217 |

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 | Body Press, Dragon Pulse, Life Dew, Shelter |
| Item | Leftovers |
| Ability | Shell Armor |
| Nature | Bold |
| Share of lists | 17.4% |
| Win rate | 64.6% |
| Decided matches | 35 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Body Press | 60.9% | 58.4% |
| Dragon Pulse | 56.5% | 54.9% |
| Shelter | 56.5% | 59.1% |
| Protect | 47.8% | 54.6% |
| Flash Cannon | 39.1% | 41.2% |
| Life Dew | 39.1% | 54.7% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Leftovers | 56.5% | 58.1% |
| Grassy Seed | 13.0% | 51.2% |
| Expert Belt | 8.7% | 53.3% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shell Armor | 69.6% | 50.8% |
| Sap Sipper | 26.1% | 50.4% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 39.1% | 48.0% |
| Bold | 26.1% | 61.0% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 73.9% | 17 | 55.8% |
| Salamence | 34.8% | 8 | 55.3% |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 30.4% | 7 | 50.1% |
| Incineroar | 30.4% | 7 | 53.9% |
| Gholdengo | 26.1% | 6 | 54.4% |

## 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=goodra-hisui

## 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.