Gen 4 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 Latias53.4% usage · +5.4%Browse teams
#2 Tyranitar47.8% usage · −4.1%Browse teams
#3 Jirachi41.1% usage · +1.6%Browse teams
#4 Scizor28.7% usage · −0.8%Browse teams
#5 Heatran27.9% usage · +2.4%Browse teams
#6 Gyarados26.3% usage · −4.4%Browse teams
#7 Metagross23.3% usage · +0.3%Browse teams
#8 Rotom-Wash20.0% usage · +7.2%Browse teams
#9 Swampert20.0% usage · −0.5%Browse teams
#10 Flygon19.8% usage · −3.0%Browse teams
Movement
Only shown for adjacent source windows of equal length.
Rising
- Rotom-Wash+7.2%
- Latias+5.4%
- Clefable+4.5%
- Tentacruel+3.6%
- Abomasnow+3.4%
Falling
- Starmie−8.1%
- Gyarados−4.4%
- Tyranitar−4.1%
- Bronzong−4.0%
- Dragonite−3.2%
Directional teammate shares
Each percentage is conditional on the named anchor Pokémon in the source artifact.
- Abomasnow + Rotom-Frost94.9% of source teams using Rotom-Frost also included AbomasnowFind teams
- Clefable + Hippowdon92.9% of source teams using Hippowdon also included ClefableFind teams
- Jirachi + Rotom-Frost90.2% of source teams using Rotom-Frost also included JirachiFind teams
- Rotom-Frost + Swampert89.5% of source teams using Rotom-Frost also included SwampertFind teams
- Rotom-Frost + Scizor88.3% of source teams using Rotom-Frost also included ScizorFind teams
- Clefable + Nidoqueen86.2% of source teams using Nidoqueen also included ClefableFind teams
- Quagsire + Tyranitar83.0% of source teams using Quagsire also included TyranitarFind teams
- Heatran + Roserade82.4% of source teams using Roserade also included HeatranFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Tyranitar into Latias72.0% target KO or switch rate · 3.5% standard error · 57.9% p − 4d score · 163.451 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Jirachi into Tyranitar78.6% target KO or switch rate · 3.4% standard error · 65.0% p − 4d score · 145.503 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Heatran into Jirachi74.9% target KO or switch rate · 4.1% standard error · 58.4% p − 4d score · 110.238 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Jirachi into Scizor66.8% target KO or switch rate · 5.5% standard error · 45.0% p − 4d score · 74.51 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Gyarados into Heatran84.1% target KO or switch rate · 7.8% standard error · 53.0% p − 4d score · 22.201 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Jirachi into Gyarados58.7% target KO or switch rate · 5.2% standard error · 37.8% p − 4d score · 88.181 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.