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

> Scrafty 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/scrafty.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/scrafty/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `scrafty` |
| Types | Dark / Fighting |
| Usage rank | #73 |
| Usage | 0.7% |
| Teams | 73 |
| Win rate | 48.7% |
| Decided matches | 746 |

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 | Close Combat, Fake Out, Knock Off, Protect |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Intimidate |
| Nature | Impish |
| Share of lists | 16.4% |
| Win rate | 54.2% |
| Decided matches | 148 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fake Out | 90.4% | 49.0% |
| Knock Off | 86.3% | 48.0% |
| Close Combat | 61.6% | 51.5% |
| Protect | 60.3% | 48.0% |
| Drain Punch | 32.9% | 44.3% |
| Detect | 12.3% | 49.6% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scraftinite | 57.5% | 48.6% |
| Focus Sash | 19.2% | 53.7% |
| Life Orb | 9.6% | 40.7% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intimidate | 98.6% | 48.7% |
| Shed Skin | 1.4% | 48.7% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adamant | 42.5% | 48.3% |
| Brave | 27.4% | 48.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 35.6% | 26 | 52.7% |
| Torkoal | 31.5% | 23 | 47.7% |
| Farigiraf | 30.1% | 22 | 48.5% |
| Gengar | 23.3% | 17 | 52.6% |
| Dragonite | 21.9% | 16 | 52.4% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 44.3% | 388 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 44.3% | 388 |

## 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=scrafty

## 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.