# Hisuian Samurott: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Hisuian Samurott 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/samurott-hisui.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/samurott-hisui/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `samurott-hisui` |
| Types | Water / Dark |
| Usage rank | #99 |
| Usage | 0.3% |
| Teams | 37 |
| Win rate | 49.0% |
| Decided matches | 340 |

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 | Aqua Cutter, Flip Turn, Night Slash, Sacred Sword |
| Item | Choice Scarf |
| Ability | Sharpness |
| Nature | Jolly |
| Share of lists | 16.2% |
| Win rate | 55.2% |
| Decided matches | 74 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sacred Sword | 86.5% | 47.9% |
| Aqua Cutter | 54.0% | 49.5% |
| Ceaseless Edge | 48.6% | 46.1% |
| Night Slash | 48.6% | 51.1% |
| Flip Turn | 40.5% | 52.0% |
| Razor Shell | 35.1% | 48.5% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Choice Scarf | 54.0% | 52.1% |
| Black Glasses | 16.2% | 48.3% |
| Life Orb | 16.2% | 44.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sharpness | 97.3% | 48.9% |
| Torrent | 2.7% | 49.0% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 51.4% | 48.2% |
| Jolly | 37.8% | 50.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salamence | 40.5% | 15 | 49.3% |
| Rillaboom | 32.4% | 12 | 50.0% |
| Sneasler | 32.4% | 12 | 47.8% |
| Gholdengo | 27.0% | 10 | 54.7% |
| Raichu | 27.0% | 10 | 47.2% |

## 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=samurott-hisui

## 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.