Head Smash

Move · #89 of 453 by usage · 4,641 teams (5.15% of teams) · all moves

Games
46,816
Win rate
50.96%
50.59%–51.33%
Usage rank
#89 of 453

Pokémon that run it

PokémonTeamsShare of its teamsWin rate
Hisuian Arcanine4,37586.34%51.57%
Basculegion1640.66%43.17%
Tyrantrum3045.45%34.97%
Rampardos2837.33%24.12%
Arcanine133.57%38.14%
Hydreigon120.41%52.78%
Aggron101.63%35.29%
Emboar77.78%50.00%
Scrafty40.38%38.46%
Aegislash10.04%40.00%
Steelix10.38%38.46%

All-time figures across every format. Method

Head Smash FAQ

All-time, whole corpus
Is Head Smash good in Pokémon Champions VGC?

Head Smash is ranked #89 of 453 moves by usage, carried by 4,641 teams (5.15% of teams). Those teams have won 50.96% of 46,816 games, above the 50% line. Usage says how many players trusted it; the win rate says how those games went.

Which Pokémon run Head Smash the most?

Hisuian Arcanine, Basculegion and Tyrantrum are the top species carrying it, by teams. The win rate beside each one is that species' own record, not this move's.

NameShare of its teamsWin rateGames
Hisuian Arcanine86.34%51.57%44,313
Basculegion0.66%43.17%1,589
Tyrantrum45.45%34.97%306
Rampardos37.33%24.12%170
Arcanine3.57%38.14%97
Hydreigon0.41%52.78%144
Aggron1.63%35.29%102
Emboar7.78%50.00%72
Scrafty0.38%38.46%39
Aegislash0.04%40.00%10
Steelix0.38%38.46%13
Is Head Smash spread across the metagame, or concentrated on a few Pokémon?

Concentrated: Hisuian Arcanine alone carries 94.27% of the 4,641 teams running Head Smash, and its top three species together account for 98.45%.

How reliable is Head Smash's win rate?

The 50.96% figure is a posterior mean, not a raw average; the interval behind it is 50.59%–51.33%, from 46,816 games. That is a narrow band for a figure with this many games behind it.

Where do these numbers come from?

Tournament decklists and real match records for Pokémon Champions, ingested from Limitless, Victory Road and the official circuit. These figures are all-time over the whole corpus, not scoped to a format or window the way the boards above the search bar are. Win rates are shrunk toward the field average rather than printed raw, so a thin sample cannot top a board.