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

> Sinistcha 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/sinistcha.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/sinistcha/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `sinistcha` |
| Types | Grass / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #28 |
| Usage | 5.7% |
| Teams | 638 |
| Win rate | 47.6% |
| Decided matches | 5,963 |

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 | Matcha Gotcha, Protect, Rage Powder, Trick Room |
| Item | Colbur Berry |
| Ability | Hospitality |
| Nature | Bold |
| Share of lists | 8.3% |
| Win rate | 53.4% |
| Decided matches | 622 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matcha Gotcha | 98.0% | 47.5% |
| Rage Powder | 97.5% | 47.4% |
| Trick Room | 69.3% | 48.6% |
| Protect | 65.0% | 48.9% |
| Life Dew | 37.5% | 45.4% |
| Shadow Ball | 15.2% | 45.2% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sitrus Berry | 26.5% | 44.7% |
| Colbur Berry | 26.2% | 50.7% |
| Kasib Berry | 12.8% | 47.5% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hospitality | 97.8% | 47.6% |
| Heatproof | 1.4% | 46.0% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bold | 49.8% | 47.8% |
| Calm | 18.5% | 48.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 45.6% | 291 | 50.1% |
| Sneasler | 34.0% | 217 | 49.0% |
| Kingambit | 24.1% | 154 | 50.6% |
| Golisopod | 23.0% | 147 | 45.1% |
| Delphox | 20.5% | 131 | 50.4% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Armarouge | 51.9% | 306 |
| Farigiraf | 50.5% | 869 |
| Staraptor | 50.5% | 483 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Excadrill | 43.7% | 421 |
| Tyranitar | 43.8% | 559 |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 44.3% | 929 |

## 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=sinistcha

## 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.