**To use Hawlucha effectively in the current VGC format, leverage its Fighting/Flying type typing and build around its top-performing movesets.** Hawlucha appears as a prominent choice in the current Pokémon Champions format, with usage data pulled from competitive teams, tournament results and Showdown-ready pastes tracked by MetaVGC. This page brings together its most common moveset, nature, ability, item, teammates and type weaknesses so you can judge where Hawlucha fits in a VGC team.

The most common build highlights Unburden, White Herb and Jolly 2/32/0/0/0/32. Its frequent moves include Close Combat, Coaching, Acrobatics, Protect, Brave Bird, and Encore. Treat those choices as a data-backed starting point: they show what players are bringing, while EV spreads, Tera Type and the final move slot should still respond to your expected matchups.

Defensively, Hawlucha has important weaknesses to electric 2x, fairy 2x, flying 2x, ice 2x, psychic 2x. That matters during teambuilding because a strong composition needs ways to cover those attacks without giving up offensive pressure. Partners such as Sinistcha, Incineroar, Farigiraf, Metagross-Mega, and Garchomp appear often because they can add positioning, type coverage, speed control or safer switches into common checks.

MetaVGC tracks recent teams using Hawlucha. Open the Hawlucha teams page to compare complete structures, copy Showdown pastes and see how players combine Hawlucha with other Pokémon in the active format.