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

> Talonflame 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/talonflame.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/talonflame/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `talonflame` |
| Types | Fire / Flying |
| Usage rank | #54 |
| Usage | 1.6% |
| Teams | 182 |
| Win rate | 45.6% |
| Decided matches | 1,511 |

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 | Dual Wingbeat, Flare Blitz, Protect, Tailwind |
| Item | Sharp Beak |
| Ability | Gale Wings |
| Nature | Jolly |
| Share of lists | 6.6% |
| Win rate | 45.9% |
| Decided matches | 137 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tailwind | 96.7% | 44.5% |
| Protect | 68.1% | 45.2% |
| Flare Blitz | 67.0% | 45.0% |
| Brave Bird | 53.3% | 45.0% |
| Dual Wingbeat | 28.6% | 44.4% |
| Will-O-Wisp | 18.1% | 43.0% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sharp Beak | 39.0% | 45.4% |
| Focus Sash | 22.5% | 39.0% |
| Life Orb | 14.8% | 43.9% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gale Wings | 96.7% | 45.2% |
| Flame Body | 3.3% | 45.6% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jolly | 70.3% | 43.2% |
| Adamant | 15.4% | 46.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kingambit | 35.2% | 64 | 42.4% |
| Sneasler | 33.5% | 61 | 44.8% |
| Rillaboom | 32.4% | 59 | 43.0% |
| Garchomp | 29.7% | 54 | 47.7% |
| Basculegion | 20.3% | 37 | 46.4% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Salamence | 45.4% | 542 |
| Sneasler | 45.2% | 720 |
| Basculegion | 45.1% | 360 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incineroar | 41.6% | 471 |
| Gholdengo | 42.3% | 332 |
| Kingambit | 43.1% | 410 |

## 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=talonflame

## 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.