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 May 2026 - Jul 2026 source artifact.
#1 Latias50.4% usageBrowse teams
#2 Tyranitar48.2% usageBrowse teams
#3 Jirachi41.9% usageBrowse teams
#4 Scizor28.0% usageBrowse teams
#5 Gyarados26.7% usageBrowse teams
#6 Heatran26.3% usageBrowse teams
#7 Flygon24.1% usageBrowse teams
#8 Starmie22.4% usageBrowse teams
#9 Metagross19.8% usageBrowse teams
#10 Swampert18.8% usageBrowse teams
Movement
Only shown for adjacent source windows of equal length.
Rising
No comparable monthly history is available.
Falling
No comparable monthly history is available.
Directional teammate shares
Each percentage is conditional on the named anchor Pokémon in the source artifact.
- Clefable + Hippowdon92.5% of source teams using Hippowdon also included ClefableFind teams
- Quagsire + Tyranitar87.4% of source teams using Quagsire also included TyranitarFind teams
- Hippowdon + Latias85.7% of source teams using Hippowdon also included LatiasFind teams
- Clefable + Nidoqueen84.4% of source teams using Nidoqueen also included ClefableFind teams
- Latias + Registeel80.2% of source teams using Registeel also included LatiasFind teams
- Breloom + Tyranitar78.2% of source teams using Breloom also included TyranitarFind teams
- Heatran + Roserade77.3% of source teams using Roserade also included HeatranFind teams
- Gastrodon + Skarmory76.2% of source teams using Gastrodon also included SkarmoryFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Tyranitar into Latias71.1% target KO or switch rate · 6.2% standard error · 46.3% p − 4d score · 158.962 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Jirachi into Tyranitar72.4% target KO or switch rate · 6.4% standard error · 46.7% p − 4d score · 140.988 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Heatran into Jirachi76.5% target KO or switch rate · 6.6% standard error · 50.1% p − 4d score · 114.901 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Heatran into Scizor72.9% target KO or switch rate · 9.2% standard error · 36.3% p − 4d score · 23.531 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Jirachi into Gyarados56.5% target KO or switch rate · 9.0% standard error · 20.3% p − 4d score · 89.306 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Gyarados into Heatran84.2% target KO or switch rate · 7.6% standard error · 53.8% p − 4d score · 22.99 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.