# Hisuian Zoroark: usage, win rate, builds, partners and matchups

> Hisuian Zoroark 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/zoroark-hisui.md |
| Human page | https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/zoroark-hisui/ |

## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Id | `zoroark-hisui` |
| Types | Normal / Ghost |
| Usage rank | #75 |
| Usage | 0.6% |
| Teams | 67 |
| Win rate | 45.4% |
| Decided matches | 588 |

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 | Bitter Malice, Icy Wind, Protect, Taunt |
| Item | Focus Sash |
| Ability | Illusion |
| Nature | Timid |
| Share of lists | 6.0% |
| Win rate | 39.9% |
| Decided matches | 35 |

## Builds

### Moves

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hyper Voice | 64.2% | 44.4% |
| Bitter Malice | 62.7% | 42.1% |
| Icy Wind | 61.2% | 42.6% |
| Protect | 49.3% | 43.8% |
| Shadow Ball | 28.4% | 44.4% |
| Nasty Plot | 23.9% | 45.3% |

### Items

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Focus Sash | 59.7% | 41.4% |
| Life Orb | 17.9% | 44.5% |
| Choice Scarf | 7.5% | 44.9% |

### Abilities

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Illusion | 97.0% | 41.5% |
| No ability | 3.0% | n/a |

### Natures

| Option | Share | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timid | 70.2% | 41.9% |
| Modest | 22.4% | 43.8% |

## Teammates

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

| Teammate | Share | Teams | Win rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indeedee ♀ | 32.8% | 22 | 42.9% |
| Sneasler | 26.9% | 18 | 46.1% |
| Rillaboom | 25.4% | 17 | 43.3% |
| Gardevoir | 19.4% | 13 | 43.9% |
| Raichu | 19.4% | 13 | 41.9% |

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 40.6% | 331 |

### Loses to

| Opponent | Win rate | Games |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rillaboom | 40.6% | 331 |

## 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=zoroark-hisui

## 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.