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

> Hippowdon 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/hippowdon.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/hippowdon/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `hippowdon` |
| Types | Ground |
| Usage rank | #158 |
| Usage | 0.1% |
| Teams | 12 |
| Win rate | 49.4% |
| Decided matches | 98 |

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 | High Horsepower, Protect, Stone Edge, Yawn |
| Item | Leftovers |
| Ability | Sand Stream |
| Nature | Careful |
| Share of lists | 33.3% |
| Win rate | 50.5% |
| Decided matches | 27 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| High Horsepower | 100.0% | 49.2% |
| Protect | 75.0% | 51.9% |
| Yawn | 66.7% | 52.4% |
| Ice Fang | 50.0% | 49.2% |
| Stone Edge | 33.3% | 50.0% |
| Fire Fang | 16.7% | 44.8% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Leftovers | 58.3% | 55.2% |
| Smooth Rock | 25.0% | 40.9% |
| Rocky Helmet | 8.3% | 48.2% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sand Stream | 100.0% | 49.3% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Careful | 50.0% | 49.0% |
| Brave | 25.0% | 50.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 58.3% | 7 | 55.2% |
| Incineroar | 50.0% | 6 | 51.1% |
| Garchomp | 33.3% | 4 | 41.1% |
| Gengar | 33.3% | 4 | 50.6% |
| Kingambit | 33.3% | 4 | 58.9% |

## 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=hippowdon

## 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.