Know exactly what your opponent is running before the battle begins. Our prediction engine analyzes 6,364 real battle replays with 129,621 recorded moves to predict your opponent's movesets, held items, abilities, and lead combinations. Stop guessing and start preparing with data-driven predictions for Pokemon Champions VGC.
Open Prediction Engine →Traditional Pokemon preparation involves browsing usage statistics and guessing what your opponent might bring. Our prediction engine goes further by analyzing team composition patterns, not just individual Pokemon usage.
During team preview, you see your opponent's six Pokemon. Enter them into the predictor using the search interface. The engine supports all Pokemon legal in the Champions format across both VGC Doubles and BSS Singles.
The engine does not just look at each Pokemon individually. It analyzes the six Pokemon as a team composition, identifying the archetype they most likely belong to. A team with Pelipper and Basculegion is almost certainly a Rain Offense build, and the engine knows that Rain Offense teams run specific sets on their other four members.
This compositional analysis is what makes the predictor more accurate than simple usage statistics. Kingambit on a Rain team often runs a different set than Kingambit on a Trick Room team, and the engine accounts for these conditional probabilities.
For each of your opponent's six Pokemon, the predictor provides:
Knowing what your opponent leads is half the battle in VGC doubles. The predictor analyzes lead patterns from the replay database and provides:
Every prediction is grounded in real competitive data, not theoretical calculations or tier list rankings. Here is where the data comes from and how reliable it is.
The prediction engine draws from 6,364 battle replays collected from Pokemon Showdown's Champions format. These replays come from high-ladder games and tournament matches, representing the strategies that competitive players actually use. The database captures 129,621 individual move decisions, providing dense coverage of common matchup scenarios.
Prediction accuracy varies by Pokemon. Highly standardized Pokemon like Incineroar, which almost always runs Fake Out, Flare Blitz, Knock Off, and U-turn, see prediction accuracy above 85%. Pokemon with more diverse set options, such as Garchomp (which can run physical, special, or mixed sets), have lower but still useful accuracy around 70%.
The engine correctly identifies the opponent's team archetype (Sun, Rain, Trick Room, etc.) with over 90% accuracy when the team contains clear archetype indicators like weather setters. For less obvious compositions, archetype detection drops to around 75%, but the engine still provides useful predictions by weighting multiple possible archetypes.
Predictions are most valuable when combined with your own game knowledge. The engine tells you the most likely scenario, but experienced opponents may deviate from expected plays. Use the predictions to:
The most successful players use predictions as a starting framework and adapt in real-time based on what they observe during the battle. If the opponent deviates from the predicted set, that information itself is valuable because it narrows down what the Pokemon could be running instead.
Simple usage statistics tell you that Incineroar runs Fake Out 94% of the time. That is useful but limited. The prediction engine tells you that Incineroar on a Sun team runs Fake Out, Flare Blitz, U-turn, and Snarl with Assault Vest, while Incineroar on a Perish Trap team runs Fake Out, Flare Blitz, Parting Shot, and Protect with Sitrus Berry. Context-aware predictions are dramatically more useful than context-free usage rates.
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