Gen 5 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 Latios40.5% usage · −2.3%Browse teams
#2 Tyranitar33.5% usage · −3.5%Browse teams
#3 Landorus-Therian33.0% usage · −3.1%Browse teams
#4 Ferrothorn32.2% usage · −3.8%Browse teams
#5 Keldeo27.5% usage · +6.2%Browse teams
#6 Jirachi27.4% usage · +5.1%Browse teams
#7 Politoed25.3% usage · +3.6%Browse teams
#8 Starmie24.8% usage · −5.2%Browse teams
#9 Thundurus-Therian20.6% usage · +3.3%Browse teams
#10 Excadrill19.4% usage · −4.9%Browse teams
Movement
Only shown for adjacent source windows of equal length.
Rising
- Keldeo+6.2%
- Jirachi+5.1%
- Skarmory+4.5%
- Tentacruel+4.3%
- Garchomp+4.0%
Falling
- Scizor−5.2%
- Starmie−5.2%
- Excadrill−4.9%
- Magnezone−4.9%
- Ferrothorn−3.8%
Directional teammate shares
Each percentage is conditional on the named anchor Pokémon in the source artifact.
- Blastoise + Politoed95.7% of source teams using Blastoise also included PolitoedFind teams
- Politoed + Thundurus-Therian95.6% of source teams using Thundurus-Therian also included PolitoedFind teams
- Clefable + Skarmory95.3% of source teams using Clefable also included SkarmoryFind teams
- Politoed + Tentacruel92.2% of source teams using Tentacruel also included PolitoedFind teams
- Darmanitan + Ninetales91.5% of source teams using Darmanitan also included NinetalesFind teams
- Blastoise + Thundurus-Therian89.5% of source teams using Blastoise also included Thundurus-TherianFind teams
- Darmanitan + Victini88.6% of source teams using Darmanitan also included VictiniFind teams
- Clefable + Hippowdon88.3% of source teams using Clefable also included HippowdonFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Tyranitar into Latios70.7% target KO or switch rate · 4.3% standard error · 53.4% p − 4d score · 111.006 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Excadrill into Tyranitar90.7% target KO or switch rate · 5.6% standard error · 68.2% p − 4d score · 26.384 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Keldeo into Landorus-Therian76.0% target KO or switch rate · 4.9% standard error · 56.4% p − 4d score · 76.026 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Garchomp into Ferrothorn78.4% target KO or switch rate · 5.8% standard error · 55.1% p − 4d score · 49.771 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Latios into Keldeo65.6% target KO or switch rate · 3.8% standard error · 50.4% p − 4d score · 156.52 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Excadrill into Jirachi86.4% target KO or switch rate · 7.6% standard error · 55.9% p − 4d score · 20.351 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.