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 May 2026 - Jul 2026 source artifact.
#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 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.
- Blastoise + Politoed97.3% of source teams using Blastoise also included PolitoedFind teams
- Politoed + Tentacruel93.9% of source teams using Tentacruel also included PolitoedFind teams
- Blastoise + Thundurus-Therian92.4% of source teams using Blastoise also included Thundurus-TherianFind teams
- Politoed + Thundurus-Therian90.6% of source teams using Thundurus-Therian also included PolitoedFind teams
- Gastrodon + Tyranitar90.1% of source teams using Gastrodon also included TyranitarFind teams
- Aerodactyl + Starmie87.1% of source teams using Aerodactyl also included StarmieFind teams
- Aerodactyl + Dragonite86.9% of source teams using Aerodactyl also included DragoniteFind teams
- Ferrothorn + Thundurus-Therian86.8% of source teams using Thundurus-Therian also included FerrothornFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Tyranitar into Latios67.5% target KO or switch rate · 6.9% standard error · 40.1% p − 4d score · 129.896 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Thundurus-Therian into Ferrothorn85.0% target KO or switch rate · 5.9% standard error · 61.4% p − 4d score · 72.774 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Starmie into Landorus-Therian75.4% target KO or switch rate · 7.3% standard error · 46.1% p − 4d score · 34.435 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Keldeo into Tyranitar83.4% target KO or switch rate · 7.6% standard error · 53.1% p − 4d score · 24.06 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Ferrothorn into Starmie72.2% target KO or switch rate · 6.6% standard error · 45.8% p − 4d score · 80.56 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Alakazam into Keldeo86.9% target KO or switch rate · 6.1% standard error · 62.4% p − 4d score · 30.151 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.