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

> Simisear 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/simisear.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/simisear/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `simisear` |
| Types | Fire |
| Usage rank | #234 |
| Usage | 0.0% |
| Teams | 17 |
| Win rate | 47.7% |
| Decided matches | 122 |

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, Grass Knot, Heat Wave, Protect |
| Item | Charcoal |
| Ability | Blaze |
| Nature | Modest |
| Share of lists | 17.6% |
| Win rate | 46.1% |
| Decided matches | 14 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fake Out | 88.2% | 42.7% |
| Grass Knot | 47.1% | 45.1% |
| Protect | 47.1% | 44.5% |
| Flamethrower | 35.3% | 44.7% |
| Overheat | 35.3% | 43.7% |
| Heat Wave | 23.5% | 46.2% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 29.4% | 44.1% |
| Charcoal | 17.6% | 46.2% |
| Life Orb | 17.6% | 47.2% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blaze | 88.2% | 43.8% |
| Gluttony | 11.8% | 45.9% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 41.2% | 41.8% |
| Modest | 29.4% | 44.5% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Froslass | 29.4% | 5 | 46.3% |
| Kingambit | 23.5% | 4 | 44.7% |
| Simipour | 23.5% | 4 | 45.3% |
| Simisage | 23.5% | 4 | 45.3% |
| Sneasler | 23.5% | 4 | 45.4% |

## 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=simisear

## 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.