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Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

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. #1 Latios41.8% usage
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  2. #2 Ferrothorn34.4% usage
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  3. #3 Landorus-Therian33.6% usage
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  4. #4 Tyranitar32.7% usage
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  5. #5 Starmie29.6% usage
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  6. #6 Keldeo25.7% usage
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  7. #7 Jirachi25.5% usage
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  8. #8 Politoed24.5% usage
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  9. #9 Excadrill20.8% usage
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  10. #10 Thundurus-Therian20.5% usage
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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.

  1. Blastoise + Politoed97.3% teammate share
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  2. Politoed + Tentacruel93.9% teammate share
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  3. Blastoise + Thundurus-Therian92.4% teammate share
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  4. Politoed + Thundurus-Therian90.6% teammate share
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  5. Gastrodon + Tyranitar90.1% teammate share
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  6. Aerodactyl + Starmie87.1% teammate share
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  7. Aerodactyl + Dragonite86.9% teammate share
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  8. Ferrothorn + Thundurus-Therian86.8% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Tyranitar into Latios67.5% counter score · 129.896 weighted observations
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  2. Thundurus-Therian into Ferrothorn85.0% counter score · 72.774 weighted observations
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  3. Starmie into Landorus-Therian75.4% counter score · 34.435 weighted observations
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  4. Keldeo into Tyranitar83.4% counter score · 24.06 weighted observations
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  5. Alakazam into Starmie78.8% counter score · 21.471 weighted observations
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  6. Alakazam into Keldeo86.9% counter score · 30.151 weighted observations
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Recent tournament teams

Only events with a published, copyable team are included.

  1. No tournament with published teams matches this format yet.