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

> Mawile 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/mawile.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/mawile/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `mawile` |
| Types | Steel / Fairy |
| Usage rank | #58 |
| Usage | 1.5% |
| Teams | 169 |
| Win rate | 45.8% |
| Decided matches | 1,526 |

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 | Iron Head, Play Rough, Protect, Sucker Punch |
| Item | Mawilite |
| Ability | Hyper Cutter |
| Nature | Brave |
| Share of lists | 15.4% |
| Win rate | 43.4% |
| Decided matches | 172 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Play Rough | 97.0% | 44.1% |
| Protect | 92.9% | 44.2% |
| Sucker Punch | 76.3% | 44.1% |
| Iron Head | 74.6% | 43.4% |
| Rock Slide | 24.9% | 48.3% |
| Swords Dance | 16.6% | 44.8% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mawilite | 98.2% | 43.9% |
| Expert Belt | 0.6% | 45.5% |
| Life Orb | 0.6% | 46.6% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hyper Cutter | 54.4% | 47.5% |
| Intimidate | 42.0% | 39.4% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brave | 61.0% | 45.1% |
| Adamant | 35.5% | 42.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Farigiraf | 52.7% | 89 | 46.7% |
| Indeedee ♀ | 41.4% | 70 | 44.3% |
| Torkoal | 38.5% | 65 | 44.1% |
| Incineroar | 36.7% | 62 | 44.6% |
| Rillaboom | 28.4% | 48 | 45.5% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basculegion | 48.2% | 344 |
| Sneasler | 47.9% | 654 |
| Kingambit | 44.8% | 375 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 43.1% | 484 |
| Rillaboom | 43.9% | 828 |
| Salamence | 44.4% | 496 |

## 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=mawile

## 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.