Terrain Control teams
Usage, win rate and the rosters built around Terrain Control in Pokémon Champions VGC, from tournament data.
What counts as Terrain Control: A member has a Surge ability, holds a Terrain Extender or a terrain Seed, or two members click a terrain move.
Terrain Control teams FAQ
Is Terrain Control good in Pokémon Champions VGC?
17,294 rosters are tagged Terrain Control, 18.79% of the field. They have won 49.48% of 165,889 games, below the 50% line. Usage says how many players built one; the win rate says how those games went.
How reliable is Terrain Control's win rate?
The 49.48% above is a posterior mean, not a raw average; the interval behind it is 49.28%–49.68%, from 165,889 games. That is a narrow band for a figure with this many games behind it.
How many teams could even be checked for Terrain Control?
92,025 rosters published enough of a list to classify at all; 17,294 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 Terrain Control team?
A member has a Surge ability, holds a Terrain Extender or a terrain Seed, or two members click a terrain move.
What does a Terrain Control team run?
The most-carried Pokémon are Rillaboom, Sneasler, Incineroar and Gholdengo.
| Name | Share of Terrain Control |
|---|---|
 Rillaboom | 70.20% |
 Sneasler | 44.66% |
 Incineroar | 36.39% |
 Gholdengo | 28.40% |
 Raichu | 27.45% |
 Salamence | 27.26% |
 Indeedee ♀ | 21.49% |
 Kingambit | 21.34% |
 Garchomp | 19.20% |
 Hisuian Arcanine | 17.86% |
 Basculegion | 16.46% |
 Eternal Flower Floette | 13.51% |
 Volcarona | 13.23% |
 Milotic | 12.28% |
 Golisopod | 10.47% |
 Staraptor | 9.88% |
 Sylveon | 9.18% |
 Gardevoir | 9.12% |
 Archaludon | 9.04% |
 Tyranitar | 8.90% |
 Farigiraf | 8.90% |
 Pelipper | 8.53% |
 Indeedee | 8.36% |
 Charizard | 7.25% |
 Excadrill | 7.14% |
 Armarouge | 6.35% |
 Gengar | 6.35% |
 Froslass | 5.81% |
 Primarina | 5.66% |
 Dragonite | 4.80% |
 Metagross | 4.57% |
 Politoed | 4.46% |
 Kommo-o | 4.23% |
 Lucario | 4.02% |
 Torkoal | 3.99% |
 Whimsicott | 3.97% |
 Delphox | 3.50% |
 Glimmora | 3.45% |
 Hatterene | 2.76% |
 Corviknight | 2.57% |
What's the best Terrain Control roster?
The most-played is Garchomp / Gholdengo / Incineroar / Raichu / Rillaboom / Volcarona, which has won 46.05% of 4,704 games.
| Name | Share of Terrain Control | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garchomp / Gholdengo / Incineroar / Raichu / Rillaboom / Volcarona | 2.99% | 46.05% | 4,704 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Gholdengo / Raichu / Rillaboom / Staraptor / Sylveon | 2.93% | 51.92% | 4,855 |
| Corviknight / Excadrill / Indeedee / Salamence / Sneasler / Tyranitar | 1.53% | 49.85% | 2,513 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Gholdengo / Primarina / Raichu / Rillaboom / Staraptor | 1.41% | 52.17% | 2,207 |
| Eternal Flower Floette / Gholdengo / Incineroar / Rillaboom / Salamence / Sneasler | 1.30% | 48.64% | 2,113 |
| Dragonite / Eternal Flower Floette / Gholdengo / Incineroar / Rillaboom / Sneasler | 1.15% | 50.37% | 1,942 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Froslass / Kingambit / Raichu / Rillaboom / Sneasler | 1.07% | 53.28% | 1,714 |
| Excadrill / Gholdengo / Milotic / Rillaboom / Salamence / Tyranitar | 1.01% | 51.44% | 1,703 |
| Eternal Flower Floette / Gholdengo / Incineroar / Raichu / Rillaboom / Sneasler | 0.99% | 56.25% | 2,068 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Basculegion / Kingambit / Rillaboom / Salamence / Sneasler | 0.98% | 48.09% | 1,633 |
| Ceruledge / Gholdengo / Milotic / Raichu / Rillaboom / Staraptor | 0.91% | 51.66% | 1,525 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Gholdengo / Raichu / Rillaboom / Salamence / Sneasler | 0.88% | 52.49% | 1,568 |
| Archaludon / Gengar / Incineroar / Politoed / Rillaboom / Vivillon | 0.87% | 49.62% | 1,368 |
| Basculegion / Gardevoir / Golisopod / Indeedee ♀ / Pelipper / Sneasler | 0.84% | 41.36% | 1,202 |
| Excadrill / Indeedee / Milotic / Salamence / Sneasler / Tyranitar | 0.72% | 52.87% | 1,416 |
| Basculegion / Eternal Flower Floette / Kingambit / Rillaboom / Salamence / Sneasler | 0.68% | 54.80% | 1,359 |
| Basculegion / Garchomp / Incineroar / Raichu / Rillaboom / Volcarona | 0.65% | 53.01% | 1,146 |
| Archaludon / Basculegion ♀ / Golisopod / Pelipper / Raichu / Sneasler | 0.62% | 56.10% | 1,202 |
| Charizard / Farigiraf / Garchomp / Incineroar / Rillaboom / Sylveon | 0.56% | 48.56% | 947 |
| Hisuian Arcanine / Indeedee / Metagross / Milotic / Salamence / Sneasler | 0.49% | 51.30% | 821 |
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 Terrain Control roster is a different population from the field.