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

> Incineroar 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/incineroar.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/incineroar/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `incineroar` |
| Types | Fire / Dark |
| Usage rank | #4 |
| Usage | 32.0% |
| Teams | 3,596 |
| Win rate | 50.0% |
| Decided matches | 36,400 |

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 | Fake Out, Flare Blitz, Parting Shot, Throat Chop |
| Item | Sitrus Berry |
| Ability | Intimidate |
| Nature | Careful |
| Share of lists | 16.2% |
| Win rate | 51.7% |
| Decided matches | 6,043 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fake Out | 98.1% | 50.1% |
| Parting Shot | 93.9% | 50.3% |
| Flare Blitz | 92.5% | 50.0% |
| Throat Chop | 49.1% | 50.7% |
| Darkest Lariat | 27.6% | 48.4% |
| Protect | 13.2% | 51.4% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sitrus Berry | 66.7% | 50.1% |
| Chople Berry | 8.5% | 50.1% |
| Passho Berry | 7.9% | 51.7% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intimidate | 98.0% | 50.1% |
| No ability | 1.2% | 50.5% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Careful | 40.0% | 50.0% |
| Impish | 28.3% | 50.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 72.9% | 2,620 | 50.6% |
| Sneasler | 45.5% | 1,636 | 50.5% |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 29.9% | 1,075 | 52.3% |
| Salamence | 27.5% | 989 | 47.7% |
| Gholdengo | 25.0% | 899 | 52.0% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Absol | 55.3% | 453 |
| Sableye | 54.7% | 489 |
| Golisopod | 53.5% | 5,321 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annihilape | 45.6% | 829 |
| Gengar | 45.6% | 1,829 |
| Glimmora | 46.3% | 1,412 |

## 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=incineroar

## 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.