Gen 3 OU Meta Pulse
Usage leaders and directional teammate shares from the named source period, conservative matchup observations, and selected tournament teams.
Usage leaders
The highest-ranked Pokémon in the Jul 2026 - Sep 2026 source artifact.
#1 Tyranitar61.6% usage · −0.5%Browse teams
#2 Swampert43.5% usage · −0.9%Browse teams
#3 Skarmory36.7% usage · −0.7%Browse teams
#4 Metagross33.7% usage · −2.6%Browse teams
#5 Blissey33.0% usage · +1.0%Browse teams
#6 Salamence32.6% usage · −4.6%Browse teams
#7 Zapdos25.4% usage · +2.1%Browse teams
#8 Gengar24.4% usage · −1.5%Browse teams
#9 Forretress22.4% usage · +3.8%Browse teams
#10 Suicune20.3% usage · −2.2%Browse teams
Movement
Only shown for adjacent source windows of equal length.
Rising
- Raikou+4.1%
- Forretress+3.8%
- Dugtrio+2.7%
- Registeel+2.3%
- Kingdra+2.3%
Falling
- Snorlax−7.2%
- Salamence−4.6%
- Jirachi−3.7%
- Jolteon−3.0%
- Metagross−2.6%
Directional teammate shares
Each percentage is conditional on the named anchor Pokémon in the source artifact.
- Blissey + Sableye99.8% of source teams using Sableye also included BlisseyFind teams
- Tyranitar + Venusaur91.9% of source teams using Venusaur also included TyranitarFind teams
- Dugtrio + Kingdra91.7% of source teams using Kingdra also included DugtrioFind teams
- Swampert + Tyranitar90.9% of source teams using Swampert also included TyranitarFind teams
- Jolteon + Tyranitar86.9% of source teams using Jolteon also included TyranitarFind teams
- Moltres + Tyranitar86.8% of source teams using Moltres also included TyranitarFind teams
- Blissey + Donphan86.1% of source teams using Donphan also included BlisseyFind teams
- Dugtrio + Jynx85.4% of source teams using Jynx also included DugtrioFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Suicune into Tyranitar80.1% target KO or switch rate · 3.5% standard error · 66.1% p − 4d score · 131.904 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Celebi into Swampert76.5% target KO or switch rate · 4.1% standard error · 60.3% p − 4d score · 109.33 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Gengar into Skarmory79.4% target KO or switch rate · 4.7% standard error · 60.7% p − 4d score · 75.605 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Swampert into Metagross51.5% target KO or switch rate · 4.5% standard error · 33.3% p − 4d score · 121.363 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Tyranitar into Blissey77.3% target KO or switch rate · 2.5% standard error · 67.3% p − 4d score · 277.872 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Starmie into Salamence66.6% target KO or switch rate · 5.7% standard error · 43.7% p − 4d score · 67.646 relevant encountersOpen matchup
Selected tournament teams
Only matching catalog events with a published, copyable team are included.
- No tournament with published teams matches this format yet.