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

> Primarina 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/primarina.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/primarina/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `primarina` |
| Types | Water / Fairy |
| Usage rank | #41 |
| Usage | 3.5% |
| Teams | 390 |
| Win rate | 47.7% |
| Decided matches | 3,856 |

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 | Calm Mind, Hyper Voice, Moonblast, Protect |
| Item | Leftovers |
| Ability | Liquid Voice |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 21.0% |
| Win rate | 50.9% |
| Decided matches | 838 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Protect | 98.5% | 47.6% |
| Hyper Voice | 97.4% | 47.5% |
| Moonblast | 96.9% | 47.4% |
| Calm Mind | 46.4% | 49.4% |
| Aqua Jet | 16.4% | 46.6% |
| Ice Beam | 8.5% | 45.2% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Orb | 34.4% | 47.6% |
| Leftovers | 33.9% | 49.1% |
| Grassy Seed | 11.0% | 50.1% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Liquid Voice | 97.7% | 47.5% |
| Torrent | 2.0% | 47.2% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Modest | 71.0% | 47.7% |
| Quiet | 20.0% | 47.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 62.3% | 243 | 48.0% |
| Incineroar | 37.4% | 146 | 46.1% |
| Salamence | 33.1% | 129 | 50.3% |
| Sneasler | 27.2% | 106 | 49.6% |
| Farigiraf | 23.3% | 91 | 44.8% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 51.6% | 622 |
| Garchomp | 48.9% | 528 |
| Farigiraf | 48.9% | 555 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Archaludon | 42.5% | 446 |
| Raichu | 42.6% | 583 |
| Gholdengo | 43.4% | 905 |

## 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=primarina

## 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.