# Alolan Ninetales: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Alolan Ninetales 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/ninetales-alola.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/ninetales-alola/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `ninetales-alola` |
| Types | Ice / Fairy |
| Usage rank | #46 |
| Usage | 2.7% |
| Teams | 301 |
| Win rate | 45.9% |
| Decided matches | 2,771 |

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 | Aurora Veil, Blizzard, Moonblast, Protect |
| Item | Light Clay |
| Ability | Snow Warning |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 14.3% |
| Win rate | 46.0% |
| Decided matches | 443 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blizzard | 92.4% | 45.2% |
| Aurora Veil | 73.1% | 44.5% |
| Protect | 72.1% | 44.9% |
| Freeze-Dry | 47.8% | 44.6% |
| Moonblast | 45.9% | 44.0% |
| Encore | 23.3% | 48.6% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Light Clay | 43.5% | 45.0% |
| Focus Sash | 20.9% | 45.1% |
| Never-Melt Ice | 17.3% | 43.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Snow Warning | 96.3% | 45.0% |
| Snow Cloak | 2.7% | 46.1% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 86.7% | 44.9% |
| Modest | 11.3% | 45.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 56.1% | 169 | 47.5% |
| Incineroar | 45.5% | 137 | 44.7% |
| Sneasler | 42.5% | 128 | 42.4% |
| Baxcalibur | 29.6% | 89 | 44.2% |
| Kingambit | 19.6% | 59 | 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pelipper | 48.5% | 357 |
| Golisopod | 47.5% | 413 |
| Garchomp | 47.3% | 363 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hisuian Arcanine | 38.7% | 442 |
| Gholdengo | 40.4% | 616 |
| Raichu | 41.6% | 423 |

## 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=ninetales-alola

## 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.