Struggle Bug
Pokémon that run it
| Pokémon | Teams | Share of its teams | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
 Volcarona | 1,281 | 44.74% | 49.49% |
 Vivillon | 23 | 1.13% | 46.23% |
 Ariados | 4 | 4.65% | 42.86% |
 Forretress | 3 | 8.82% | 37.04% |
 Gliscor | 1 | 0.45% | 62.50% |
All-time figures across every format. Method
Struggle Bug FAQ
All-time, whole corpusIs Struggle Bug good in Pokémon Champions VGC?
Struggle Bug is ranked #160 of 453 moves by usage, carried by 1,312 teams (1.46% of teams). Those teams have won 49.42% of 12,849 games, below the 50% line. Usage says how many players trusted it; the win rate says how those games went.
Which Pokémon run Struggle Bug the most?
Volcarona, Vivillon and Ariados 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volcarona | 44.74% | 49.49% | 12,573 |
| Vivillon | 1.13% | 46.23% | 199 |
| Ariados | 4.65% | 42.86% | 42 |
| Forretress | 8.82% | 37.04% | 27 |
| Gliscor | 0.45% | 62.50% | 8 |
Is Struggle Bug spread across the metagame, or concentrated on a few Pokémon?
Concentrated: Volcarona alone carries 97.64% of the 1,312 teams running Struggle Bug, and its top three species together account for 99.70%.
How reliable is Struggle Bug's win rate?
The 49.42% figure is a posterior mean, not a raw average; the interval behind it is 48.73%–50.11%, from 12,849 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.