Rain teams
Usage, win rate and the rosters built around Rain in Pokémon Champions VGC, from tournament data.
What counts as Rain: A member has Drizzle (including via Swampertite), holds a Damp Rock, clicks Rain Dance, or has Swift Swim.
Rain teams FAQ
Is Rain good in Pokémon Champions VGC?
17,972 rosters are tagged Rain, 19.53% of the field. They have won 49.07% of 187,080 games, below the 50% line. Usage says how many players built one; the win rate says how those games went.
How reliable is Rain's win rate?
The 49.07% above is a posterior mean, not a raw average; the interval behind it is 48.88%–49.26%, from 187,080 games. That is a narrow band for a figure with this many games behind it.
How many teams could even be checked for Rain?
92,025 rosters published enough of a list to classify at all; 17,972 of those satisfied the rule, which is where the usage share above comes from. A roster with too little published to check is left out of both numbers rather than counted as a miss.
What counts as a Rain team?
A member has Drizzle (including via Swampertite), holds a Damp Rock, clicks Rain Dance, or has Swift Swim.
What does a Rain team run?
The most-carried Pokémon are Archaludon, Pelipper, Basculegion and Swampert.
| Name | Share of Rain |
|---|---|
 Archaludon | 68.16% |
 Pelipper | 68.07% |
 Basculegion | 36.46% |
 Swampert | 25.72% |
 Incineroar | 25.61% |
 Sinistcha | 25.10% |
 Sneasler | 24.04% |
 Grimmsnarl | 21.04% |
 Politoed | 20.37% |
 Venusaur | 17.50% |
 Charizard | 15.42% |
 Farigiraf | 13.12% |
 Gengar | 13.10% |
 Golisopod | 12.07% |
 Dragonite | 11.89% |
 Garchomp | 11.67% |
 Kingambit | 11.53% |
 Sableye | 11.50% |
 Rillaboom | 8.07% |
 Raichu | 7.12% |
 Scizor | 6.04% |
 Eternal Flower Floette | 5.96% |
 Metagross | 5.78% |
 Vivillon | 5.60% |
 Blastoise | 5.49% |
 Whimsicott | 5.25% |
 Meganium | 5.16% |
 Maushold | 4.48% |
 Sylveon | 4.30% |
 Aerodactyl | 4.21% |
 Gardevoir | 3.58% |
 Scovillain | 3.51% |
 Gholdengo | 3.48% |
 Indeedee ♀ | 3.47% |
 Staraptor | 2.77% |
 Kommo-o | 2.58% |
 Froslass | 2.38% |
 Kangaskhan | 2.23% |
 Mawile | 2.16% |
 Starmie | 2.15% |
What's the best Rain roster?
The most-played is Archaludon / Basculegion / Charizard / Grimmsnarl / Pelipper / Venusaur, which has won 54.02% of 7,732 games.
| Name | Share of Rain | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Charizard / Grimmsnarl / Pelipper / Venusaur | 3.76% | 54.02% | 7,732 |
| Archaludon / Charizard / Garchomp / Grimmsnarl / Pelipper / Venusaur | 2.41% | 53.49% | 4,264 |
| Archaludon / Charizard / Grimmsnarl / Pelipper / Swampert / Venusaur | 2.36% | 55.07% | 4,891 |
| Archaludon / Gengar / Incineroar / Politoed / Swampert / Vivillon | 2.16% | 53.95% | 4,409 |
| Archaludon / Grimmsnarl / Metagross / Pelipper / Sinistcha / Swampert | 1.90% | 50.92% | 3,997 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion ♀ / Golisopod / Pelipper / Raichu / Sneasler | 0.89% | 55.38% | 1,689 |
| Archaludon / Gengar / Incineroar / Politoed / Rillaboom / Vivillon | 0.85% | 49.39% | 1,364 |
| Basculegion / Gardevoir / Golisopod / Indeedee ♀ / Pelipper / Sneasler | 0.79% | 41.48% | 1,164 |
| Basculegion / Blastoise / Farigiraf / Kangaskhan / Torkoal / Vivillon | 0.78% | 50.24% | 1,455 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Dragonite / Pelipper / Scizor / Sneasler | 0.78% | 55.41% | 1,753 |
| Archaludon / Charizard / Farigiraf / Golisopod / Grimmsnarl / Politoed | 0.72% | 52.17% | 1,185 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Dragonite / Incineroar / Pelipper / Scizor | 0.61% | 62.74% | 1,595 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Dragonite / Pelipper / Sableye / Sinistcha | 0.59% | 45.76% | 1,051 |
| Archaludon / Metagross / Pelipper / Sableye / Sinistcha / Swampert | 0.46% | 53.17% | 941 |
| Gengar / Incineroar / Kommo-o / Politoed / Sinistcha / Tinkaton | 0.45% | 50.69% | 806 |
| Archaludon / Froslass / Gengar / Incineroar / Politoed / Rillaboom | 0.44% | 53.91% | 873 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Dragonite / Pelipper / Sinistcha / Sneasler | 0.41% | 48.13% | 810 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion / Kingambit / Pelipper / Sableye / Venusaur | 0.40% | 54.15% | 937 |
| Gengar / Hawlucha / Incineroar / Politoed / Sinistcha / Snorlax | 0.39% | 48.41% | 720 |
| Archaludon / Eternal Flower Floette / Grimmsnarl / Pelipper / Sinistcha / Swampert | 0.38% | 50.29% | 656 |
Where do these numbers come from?
Tournament decklists and real match records for Pokémon Champions, ingested from Limitless, Victory Road and the official circuit. A roster can satisfy several archetypes at once (a team can be Sand and Trick Room and Priority together), so archetype shares across the site do not add to 100. Win rates are shrunk toward this archetype's own rosters, not the format's, since a Rain roster is a different population from the field.