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

> Whimsicott 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/whimsicott.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/whimsicott/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `whimsicott` |
| Types | Grass / Fairy |
| Usage rank | #25 |
| Usage | 6.2% |
| Teams | 692 |
| Win rate | 46.2% |
| Decided matches | 6,441 |

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 | Encore, Moonblast, Protect, Tailwind |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Prankster |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 33.4% |
| Win rate | 49.2% |
| Decided matches | 2,317 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tailwind | 97.0% | 45.9% |
| Moonblast | 93.2% | 46.0% |
| Encore | 72.8% | 46.8% |
| Protect | 68.2% | 47.1% |
| Charm | 12.7% | 45.9% |
| Sunny Day | 11.1% | 43.9% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 77.2% | 45.3% |
| Occa Berry | 7.4% | 48.5% |
| Fairy Feather | 6.1% | 50.4% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Prankster | 97.3% | 45.9% |
| No ability | 2.3% | 46.0% |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 76.0% | 46.9% |
| Modest | 12.4% | 43.7% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basculegion | 35.5% | 246 | 48.5% |
| Kingambit | 33.1% | 229 | 48.0% |
| Garchomp | 32.5% | 225 | 46.0% |
| Sneasler | 29.8% | 206 | 44.0% |
| Charizard | 27.6% | 191 | 47.6% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sinistcha | 52.9% | 367 |
| Whimsicott | 48.3% | 360 |
| Volcarona | 48.0% | 369 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Raichu | 41.8% | 948 |
| Froslass | 42.4% | 366 |
| Excadrill | 42.5% | 400 |

## 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=whimsicott

## 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.