Shell Smash
Pokémon that run it
| Pokémon | Teams | Share of its teams | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
 Blastoise | 2,285 | 64.40% | 52.22% |
 Blastoise | 171 | 69.51% | 55.79% |
 Barbaracle | 60 | 65.93% | 47.16% |
 Torterra | 30 | 32.61% | 45.48% |
 Polteageist | 10 | 58.82% | 32.81% |
 Torkoal | 5 | 0.11% | 53.33% |
 Barbaracle | 2 | 100.00% | 60.00% |
 Mega Blastoise | 1 | 100.00% | 55.00% |
 Meganium | 1 | 0.56% | 25.00% |
 Meganium | 1 | 0.05% | 25.00% |
All-time figures across every format. Method
Shell Smash FAQ
All-time, whole corpusIs Shell Smash good in Pokémon Champions VGC?
Shell Smash is ranked #131 of 453 moves by usage, carried by 2,390 teams (2.65% of teams). Those teams have won 51.86% of 26,632 games, above the 50% line. Usage says how many players trusted it; the win rate says how those games went.
Which Pokémon run Shell Smash the most?
Blastoise, Blastoise and Barbaracle are the top species carrying it, by teams. The win rate beside each one is that species' own record, not this move's.
| Name | Share of its teams | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blastoise | 64.40% | 52.22% | 25,617 |
| Blastoise | 69.51% | 55.79% | 1,208 |
| Barbaracle | 65.93% | 47.16% | 598 |
| Torterra | 32.61% | 45.48% | 299 |
| Polteageist | 58.82% | 32.81% | 64 |
| Torkoal | 0.11% | 53.33% | 45 |
| Barbaracle | 100.00% | 60.00% | 15 |
| Mega Blastoise | 100.00% | 55.00% | 20 |
| Meganium | 0.56% | 25.00% | 4 |
| Meganium | 0.05% | 25.00% | 8 |
Is Shell Smash spread across the metagame, or concentrated on a few Pokémon?
Concentrated: Blastoise alone carries 95.61% of the 2,390 teams running Shell Smash, and its top three species together account for 105.27%.
How reliable is Shell Smash's win rate?
The 51.86% figure is a posterior mean, not a raw average; the interval behind it is 51.37%–52.35%, from 26,632 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.