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

> Greninja 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/greninja.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/greninja/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `greninja` |
| Types | Water / Dark |
| Usage rank | #89 |
| Usage | 0.5% |
| Teams | 52 |
| Win rate | 44.8% |
| Decided matches | 408 |

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 | Extrasensory, Hydro Cannon, Ice Beam, Water Shuriken |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Protean |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 7.7% |
| Win rate | 40.9% |
| Decided matches | 17 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 73.1% | 41.3% |
| Dark Pulse | 67.3% | 40.8% |
| Ice Beam | 53.9% | 42.3% |
| Blizzard | 34.6% | 39.8% |
| Water Shuriken | 26.9% | 42.1% |
| Extrasensory | 25.0% | 41.7% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Greninjite | 78.8% | 38.3% |
| Focus Sash | 13.5% | 40.9% |
| Choice Scarf | 3.9% | 44.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protean | 94.2% | 36.0% |
| Torrent | 5.8% | 46.5% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 55.8% | 42.5% |
| Modest | 17.3% | 44.0% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 40.4% | 21 | 37.9% |
| Garchomp | 34.6% | 18 | 40.7% |
| Sneasler | 34.6% | 18 | 37.0% |
| Rillaboom | 32.7% | 17 | 40.6% |
| Alolan Ninetales | 30.8% | 16 | 37.4% |

## 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=greninja

## 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.