Gen 4 VGC 2009 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 Mar 2026 - May 2026 source artifact.
#1 Latios42.6% usageBrowse teams
#2 Snorlax42.1% usageBrowse teams
#3 Metagross40.6% usageBrowse teams
#4 Zapdos35.4% usageBrowse teams
#5 Heatran32.4% usageBrowse teams
#6 Cresselia32.0% usageBrowse teams
#7 Rhyperior30.7% usageBrowse teams
#8 Bronzong30.2% usageBrowse teams
#9 Gyarados24.8% usageBrowse teams
#10 Garchomp20.4% 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.
- Garchomp + Registeel130.5% of source teams using Registeel also included GarchompFind teams
- Lapras + Vaporeon125.6% of source teams using Vaporeon also included LaprasFind teams
- Kingdra + Vaporeon119.5% of source teams using Vaporeon also included KingdraFind teams
- Ludicolo + Vaporeon119.5% of source teams using Vaporeon also included LudicoloFind teams
- Kingdra + Ludicolo118.7% of source teams using Kingdra also included LudicoloFind teams
- Kingdra + Lapras115.2% of source teams using Kingdra also included LaprasFind teams
- Lapras + Ludicolo114.9% of source teams using Lapras also included LudicoloFind teams
- Registeel + Zapdos110.5% of source teams using Registeel also included ZapdosFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- No matchup data is available for this edition.
Selected tournament teams
Only matching catalog events with a published, copyable team are included.
- No tournament with published teams matches this format yet.