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

> Sceptile 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/sceptile.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/sceptile/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `sceptile` |
| Types | Grass |
| Usage rank | #107 |
| Usage | 0.3% |
| Teams | 32 |
| Win rate | 45.9% |
| Decided matches | 255 |

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 | Detect, Dragon Pulse, Earth Power, Energy Ball |
| Item | Sceptilite |
| Ability | Overgrow |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 21.9% |
| Win rate | 31.8% |
| Decided matches | 56 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dragon Pulse | 90.6% | 41.9% |
| Earth Power | 81.3% | 42.8% |
| Energy Ball | 53.1% | 42.4% |
| Detect | 46.9% | 43.2% |
| Protect | 43.8% | 44.3% |
| Leaf Storm | 28.1% | 45.7% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sceptilite | 87.5% | 34.2% |
| White Herb | 6.3% | 48.3% |
| Choice Scarf | 3.1% | 48.1% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Overgrow | 68.8% | 38.3% |
| Unburden | 25.0% | 41.6% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 65.6% | 44.3% |
| Modest | 31.3% | 45.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pelipper | 28.1% | 9 | 43.5% |
| Garchomp | 25.0% | 8 | 30.6% |
| Kingambit | 18.8% | 6 | 25.5% |
| Milotic | 18.8% | 6 | 42.1% |
| Sableye | 18.8% | 6 | 45.0% |

## 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=sceptile

## 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.