Gen 5 OU Meta Pulse
Current usage leaders, recurring teammate cores, matchup checks, and published tournament teams, grounded in crob.at's available runtime data.
Usage leaders
The highest-ranked Pokémon in the May 2026 - Jul 2026 source dataset.
#1 Latios41.8% usageBrowse teams
#2 Ferrothorn34.4% usageBrowse teams
#3 Landorus-Therian33.6% usageBrowse teams
#4 Tyranitar32.7% usageBrowse teams
#5 Starmie29.6% usageBrowse teams
#6 Keldeo25.7% usageBrowse teams
#7 Jirachi25.5% usageBrowse teams
#8 Politoed24.5% usageBrowse teams
#9 Excadrill20.8% usageBrowse teams
#10 Thundurus-Therian20.5% usageBrowse teams
Movement
Only shown when a prior monthly dataset exists.
Rising
No comparable monthly history is available.
Falling
No comparable monthly history is available.
Popular cores
Strong teammate associations in the source usage data.
- Blastoise + Politoed97.3% teammate shareFind teams
- Politoed + Tentacruel93.9% teammate shareFind teams
- Blastoise + Thundurus-Therian92.4% teammate shareFind teams
- Politoed + Thundurus-Therian90.6% teammate shareFind teams
- Gastrodon + Tyranitar90.1% teammate shareFind teams
- Aerodactyl + Starmie87.1% teammate shareFind teams
- Aerodactyl + Dragonite86.9% teammate shareFind teams
- Ferrothorn + Thundurus-Therian86.8% teammate shareFind teams
Matchups to prepare for
The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.
- Tyranitar into Latios67.5% counter score · 129.896 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Thundurus-Therian into Ferrothorn85.0% counter score · 72.774 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Starmie into Landorus-Therian75.4% counter score · 34.435 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Keldeo into Tyranitar83.4% counter score · 24.06 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Alakazam into Starmie78.8% counter score · 21.471 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Alakazam into Keldeo86.9% counter score · 30.151 weighted observationsOpen matchup
Recent tournament teams
Only events with a published, copyable team are included.
- No tournament with published teams matches this format yet.