# Paldean Tauros Aqua Breed: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Paldean Tauros Aqua Breed 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/tauros-paldea-aqua.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/tauros-paldea-aqua/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `tauros-paldea-aqua` |
| Types | Fighting / Water |
| Usage rank | #154 |
| Usage | 0.1% |
| Teams | 13 |
| Win rate | 48.9% |
| Decided matches | 135 |

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 | Aqua Jet, Close Combat, Protect, Wave Crash |
| Item | Life Orb |
| Ability | Intimidate |
| Nature | Jolly |
| Share of lists | 23.1% |
| Win rate | 48.2% |
| Decided matches | 25 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Close Combat | 100.0% | 48.3% |
| Aqua Jet | 84.6% | 48.9% |
| Protect | 76.9% | 49.2% |
| Wave Crash | 61.5% | 48.7% |
| Raging Bull | 46.1% | 48.1% |
| Earthquake | 7.7% | 48.5% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Orb | 23.1% | 47.6% |
| White Herb | 23.1% | 48.8% |
| Choice Scarf | 15.4% | 45.1% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intimidate | 76.9% | 48.6% |
| Anger Point | 23.1% | 46.5% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jolly | 61.5% | 48.5% |
| Adamant | 23.1% | 48.8% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 53.9% | 7 | 45.7% |
| Froslass | 38.5% | 5 | 50.9% |
| Incineroar | 38.5% | 5 | 46.2% |
| Eternal Flower Floette | 23.1% | 3 | 45.4% |
| Kingambit | 23.1% | 3 | 50.2% |

## 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=tauros-paldea-aqua

## 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.