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

> Pyroar 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/pyroar.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/pyroar/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `pyroar` |
| Types | Fire / Normal |
| Usage rank | #87 |
| Usage | 0.5% |
| Teams | 53 |
| Win rate | 50.8% |
| Decided matches | 539 |

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, Overheat, Protect, Scorching Sands |
| Item | Pyroarite |
| Ability | Unnerve |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 35.9% |
| Win rate | 54.3% |
| Decided matches | 245 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heat Wave | 94.3% | 51.6% |
| Protect | 94.3% | 51.6% |
| Overheat | 83.0% | 51.4% |
| Scorching Sands | 41.5% | 52.2% |
| Solar Beam | 22.6% | 49.2% |
| Snarl | 17.0% | 51.7% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pyroarite | 96.2% | 50.9% |
| No item | 3.8% | 50.8% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unnerve | 96.2% | 50.9% |
| No ability | 3.8% | 50.8% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 88.7% | 51.6% |
| Modest | 7.5% | 50.9% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 45.3% | 24 | 54.6% |
| Kingambit | 34.0% | 18 | 56.9% |
| Torkoal | 32.1% | 17 | 48.9% |
| Farigiraf | 28.3% | 15 | 50.8% |
| Rillaboom | 26.4% | 14 | 52.5% |

## 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=pyroar

## 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.