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

> Simipour 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 | every Champions format published here |
| Data published | 2026-09-28 |
| This document | https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon/simipour.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/simipour/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `simipour` |
| Types | Water |
| Usage rank | #223 |
| Usage | 0.0% |
| Teams | 29 |
| Win rate | 49.4% |
| Decided matches | 328 |

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 | Fake Out, Ice Beam, Protect, Scald |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Torrent |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 10.3% |
| Win rate | 50.1% |
| Decided matches | 33 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fake Out | 82.8% | 48.8% |
| Scald | 72.4% | 50.0% |
| Protect | 51.7% | 48.4% |
| Icy Wind | 44.8% | 51.2% |
| Flip Turn | 37.9% | 50.3% |
| Ice Beam | 27.6% | 48.2% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 44.8% | 48.8% |
| Choice Scarf | 13.8% | 49.7% |
| Mystic Water | 13.8% | 51.6% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Torrent | 89.7% | 49.4% |
| Gluttony | 10.3% | 49.4% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 31.0% | 49.3% |
| Timid | 27.6% | 51.4% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aerodactyl | 24.1% | 7 | 49.6% |
| Garchomp | 20.7% | 6 | 51.3% |
| Aegislash | 13.8% | 4 | 52.3% |
| Arcanine | 13.8% | 4 | 49.3% |
| Simisage | 13.8% | 4 | 47.7% |

## 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=simipour

## 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.