# Galarian Slowking: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Galarian Slowking 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/slowking-galar.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/slowking-galar/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `slowking-galar` |
| Types | Poison / Psychic |
| Usage rank | #148 |
| Usage | 0.1% |
| Teams | 14 |
| Win rate | 49.0% |
| Decided matches | 126 |

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 | Calm Mind, Expanding Force, Ice Beam, Sludge Bomb |
| Item | Sitrus Berry |
| Ability | Regenerator |
| Nature | Relaxed |
| Share of lists | 21.4% |
| Win rate | 46.0% |
| Decided matches | 15 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sludge Bomb | 85.7% | 48.3% |
| Trick Room | 57.1% | 50.5% |
| Chilly Reception | 50.0% | 44.0% |
| Expanding Force | 42.9% | 48.7% |
| Ice Beam | 28.6% | 45.0% |
| Psychic | 28.6% | 51.1% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colbur Berry | 42.9% | 49.1% |
| Sitrus Berry | 42.9% | 43.8% |
| Bright Powder | 7.1% | 50.7% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Regenerator | 92.9% | 48.7% |
| Curious Medicine | 7.1% | 49.0% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Relaxed | 42.9% | 47.9% |
| Modest | 21.4% | 49.1% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Baxcalibur | 35.7% | 5 | 47.5% |
| Kingambit | 28.6% | 4 | 49.4% |
| Blaziken | 21.4% | 3 | 46.2% |
| Clawitzer | 21.4% | 3 | 46.2% |
| Crabominable | 21.4% | 3 | 46.7% |

## 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=slowking-galar

## 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.