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

> Grimmsnarl 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/grimmsnarl.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/grimmsnarl/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `grimmsnarl` |
| Types | Dark / Fairy |
| Usage rank | #31 |
| Usage | 4.9% |
| Teams | 547 |
| Win rate | 50.6% |
| Decided matches | 5,387 |

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 | Light Screen, Parting Shot, Reflect, Spirit Break |
| Item | Light Clay |
| Ability | Prankster |
| Nature | Careful |
| Share of lists | 35.6% |
| Win rate | 50.2% |
| Decided matches | 1,917 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reflect | 96.2% | 51.1% |
| Light Screen | 95.8% | 51.1% |
| Parting Shot | 90.9% | 51.4% |
| Spirit Break | 84.3% | 51.3% |
| Foul Play | 10.8% | 50.9% |
| Fake Out | 8.8% | 46.8% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Light Clay | 93.8% | 51.5% |
| Roseli Berry | 1.8% | 45.0% |
| Sitrus Berry | 1.3% | 36.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Prankster | 99.1% | 50.8% |
| No ability | 0.7% | 50.3% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Careful | 46.6% | 49.3% |
| Sassy | 26.9% | 55.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Archaludon | 70.6% | 386 | 53.9% |
| Pelipper | 61.8% | 338 | 53.2% |
| Golisopod | 49.4% | 270 | 52.0% |
| Charizard | 42.0% | 230 | 53.8% |
| Swampert | 32.5% | 178 | 53.5% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farigiraf | 58.6% | 831 |
| Golisopod | 57.6% | 796 |
| Indeedee ♀ | 56.7% | 953 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 40.5% | 879 |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 43.5% | 772 |
| Gholdengo | 44.7% | 1,274 |

## 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=grimmsnarl

## 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.