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

> Pidgeot 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/pidgeot.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/pidgeot/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `pidgeot` |
| Types | Normal / Flying |
| Usage rank | #175 |
| Usage | 0.1% |
| Teams | 8 |
| Win rate | 49.7% |
| Decided matches | 80 |

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 | Heat Wave, Hurricane, Protect, Tailwind |
| Item | Pidgeotite |
| Ability | Keen Eye |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 50.0% |
| Win rate | 52.7% |
| Decided matches | 48 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hurricane | 100.0% | 50.0% |
| Protect | 100.0% | 50.0% |
| Tailwind | 100.0% | 50.0% |
| Heat Wave | 87.5% | 50.1% |
| Hyper Beam | 12.5% | 49.6% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pidgeotite | 100.0% | 50.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keen Eye | 62.5% | 51.4% |
| Big Pecks | 12.5% | 50.8% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 87.5% | 52.6% |
| Unknown | 12.5% | 47.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Excadrill | 62.5% | 5 | 50.9% |
| Tyranitar | 62.5% | 5 | 50.9% |
| Indeedee ♀ | 50.0% | 4 | 50.1% |
| Kommo-o | 50.0% | 4 | 51.2% |
| Sneasler | 37.5% | 3 | 49.4% |

## 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=pidgeot

## 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.