# Sucker Punch > Pokemon Champions VGC statistics measured from real tournament match records: usage, win rate under a fitted prior, head-to-head matchups, team cores, archetypes, published teamlists and a separate Showdown ladder board. ## What is published here - **Usage and win rate** per species, over a named corpus rather than a pooled everything. - **Head-to-head matchups** at 1v1, 2v2, 4v4 and 6v6, measured from match records rather than inferred from standings. - **Team cores**: which sets of two and four are brought together, and how those teams do. - **Archetypes**: strategy boards with their membership rules published beside the numbers. - **Teamlists**: every published roster, indexed by event and by player. - **Ladder**: a separate Showdown board carrying what is listed on the six, what is brought to the four, and what leads. ## AI-optimised content Markdown documents, rendered from the same snapshots the site reads: - [Sucker Punch for agents](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/index.md): Entry point: what is published here, and which document answers what. - [Formats, scopes and windows](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/formats.md): Every corpus key a board can be addressed by, what each one pools, and the time windows. - [How the numbers are computed](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/method.md): The estimator, the four denominators, the floors, and what the data does not measure. - [Species index](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon.md): Every species with published data: rank, usage, win rate, and its document link. - [Archetypes and team cores](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/teams.md): The archetype boards with their membership rules, and the most played rosters under each. - [Ladder board](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/ladder.md): Showdown ladder: what is listed on the six, what is brought to the four, what leads. - [Event index](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/events.md): Every tournament in the corpus, with its date, format, entrants and page. - [JSON API and published data](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/api.md): The live read: the tool catalogue over HTTP, and the snapshot bucket these documents are rendered from. - [Per species](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/pokemon/kingambit.md): one document per species, pattern `/ai/pokemon/[id].md`. - [Full context](https://suckerpunch.gg/llms-full.txt): the data model, the estimator and the caveats. - [AI sitemap (Markdown)](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai-sitemap.md) / [AI sitemap (XML)](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai-sitemap.xml). ## Freshness - Snapshot these documents were rendered from: **2026-09-28**. - The boards republish daily; these documents are rebuilt on deploy, so they can trail by a deploy. - The live read is the JSON API, documented at [/ai/api.md](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/api.md) (base: https://us-central1-sucker-punch-71328.cloudfunctions.net/api). ## Corpora Tournament data and ladder data are separate populations and are never blended. Formats currently carrying data: - `M-C` (Reg M-C, tournaments): 187 tournaments, latest 2026-10-04. - `M-C-official` (Reg M-C-official, official): 9 tournaments, latest 2026-09-26. - `M-C-jp` (Reg M-C-jp, terurun): 3 tournaments, latest 2026-09-20. - `M-C-vr` (Reg M-C-vr, victoryroad): 2 tournaments, latest 2026-09-19. - `M-C-lvgc` (Reg M-C-lvgc, official): 3 tournaments, latest 2026-09-19. - `M-B` (Reg M-B, tournaments): 606 tournaments, latest 2026-09-12. - `M-V` (Reg M-V, tournaments): 2 tournaments, latest 2026-09-11. - `M-B-lvgc` (Reg M-B-lvgc, official): 3 tournaments, latest 2026-08-28. - `M-B-official` (Reg M-B-official, official): 3 tournaments, latest 2026-08-28. - `M-B-vr` (Reg M-B-vr, victoryroad): 7 tournaments, latest 2026-08-16. - `M-B-jp` (Reg M-B-jp, terurun): 6 tournaments, latest 2026-08-15. - `M-A` (Reg M-A, tournaments): 498 tournaments, latest 2026-07-04. Scope keys, pooling rules and time windows: [/ai/formats.md](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/formats.md). ## Most played right now - **Kingambit**: 34.1% usage, 52.0% win rate over 312,921 decided matches. - **Garchomp**: 33.4% usage, 50.5% win rate over 302,123 decided matches. - **Sneasler**: 33.2% usage, 50.2% win rate over 295,432 decided matches. - **Incineroar**: 32.1% usage, 49.8% win rate over 284,594 decided matches. - **Basculegion**: 29.2% usage, 51.7% win rate over 264,392 decided matches. - **Charizard**: 23.6% usage, 51.2% win rate over 214,846 decided matches. - **Sinistcha**: 22.3% usage, 49.3% win rate over 196,764 decided matches. - **Whimsicott**: 17.4% usage, 49.3% win rate over 151,872 decided matches. - **Farigiraf**: 16.8% usage, 48.8% win rate over 145,106 decided matches. - **Eternal Flower Floette**: 16.5% usage, 53.2% win rate over 154,462 decided matches. ## Human pages - [https://suckerpunch.gg/](https://suckerpunch.gg/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/](https://suckerpunch.gg/pokemon/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/](https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/events/](https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/events/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/players/](https://suckerpunch.gg/players/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/partners/](https://suckerpunch.gg/partners/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/replicas/](https://suckerpunch.gg/teams/replicas/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/matchups/](https://suckerpunch.gg/matchups/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/moves/](https://suckerpunch.gg/moves/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/items/](https://suckerpunch.gg/items/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/abilities/](https://suckerpunch.gg/abilities/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/natures/](https://suckerpunch.gg/natures/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/ladder/](https://suckerpunch.gg/ladder/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/meta/transfer/](https://suckerpunch.gg/meta/transfer/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/method/](https://suckerpunch.gg/method/) - [https://suckerpunch.gg/guides/](https://suckerpunch.gg/guides/) ## Method Win rate is a posterior mean under a Beta prior fitted to the field, not wins over games. Ties are excluded from the denominator rather than counted as half. Build percentages are shares of teams that published a list, which at most events is the cut and not the field. Full statement: [/ai/method.md](https://suckerpunch.gg/ai/method.md) and [/method](https://suckerpunch.gg/method/). ## Contact - Website: [https://suckerpunch.gg](https://suckerpunch.gg/) - Attribution: Sucker Punch, [https://suckerpunch.gg](https://suckerpunch.gg)