Gen 6 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 Excadrill40.2% usage · −3.8%Browse teams
#2 Clefable24.6% usage · +1.4%Browse teams
#3 Landorus-Therian22.5% usage · −0.4%Browse teams
#4 Garchomp21.8% usage · +2.6%Browse teams
#5 Weavile20.3% usage · +3.3%Browse teams
#6 Keldeo18.9% usage · +2.2%Browse teams
#7 Serperior18.2% usage · −4.5%Browse teams
#8 Thundurus17.8% usage · +1.4%Browse teams
#9 Heatran17.5% usage · +1.8%Browse teams
#10 Scizor-Mega16.1% usage · +3.5%Browse teams
Movement
Only shown for adjacent source windows of equal length.
Rising
- Scizor-Mega+3.5%
- Weavile+3.3%
- Metagross-Mega+3.1%
- Garchomp+2.6%
- Keldeo+2.2%
Falling
- Serperior−4.5%
- Excadrill−3.8%
- Ferrothorn−3.2%
- Bisharp−3.0%
- Tyranitar−2.6%
Directional teammate shares
Each percentage is conditional on the named anchor Pokémon in the source artifact.
- Kingdra + Politoed99.0% of source teams using Kingdra also included PolitoedFind teams
- Chesnaught + Rotom-Wash94.6% of source teams using Chesnaught also included Rotom-WashFind teams
- Chesnaught + Metagross-Mega94.5% of source teams using Chesnaught also included Metagross-MegaFind teams
- Chesnaught + Landorus-Therian94.3% of source teams using Chesnaught also included Landorus-TherianFind teams
- Clefable + Gastrodon92.5% of source teams using Gastrodon also included ClefableFind teams
- Chesnaught + Latias91.7% of source teams using Chesnaught also included LatiasFind teams
- Excadrill + Tyranitar-Mega90.6% of source teams using Tyranitar-Mega also included ExcadrillFind teams
- Landorus-Therian + Raikou89.7% of source teams using Raikou also included Landorus-TherianFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Keldeo into Excadrill79.0% target KO or switch rate · 3.5% standard error · 64.9% p − 4d score · 134.631 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Excadrill into Clefable73.8% target KO or switch rate · 2.5% standard error · 63.7% p − 4d score · 302.702 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Skarmory into Landorus-Therian86.8% target KO or switch rate · 6.8% standard error · 59.4% p − 4d score · 24.618 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Serperior into Garchomp91.5% target KO or switch rate · 5.2% standard error · 70.7% p − 4d score · 28.549 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Metagross-Mega into Weavile85.9% target KO or switch rate · 6.9% standard error · 58.2% p − 4d score · 25.139 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Serperior into Keldeo76.5% target KO or switch rate · 4.7% standard error · 57.7% p − 4d score · 81.369 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.