Gen 8 National Dex 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 Landorus-Therian29.9% usageBrowse teams
#2 Tapu Fini27.9% usageBrowse teams
#3 Greninja27.5% usageBrowse teams
#4 Ferrothorn25.0% usageBrowse teams
#5 Zapdos23.6% usageBrowse teams
#6 Clefable18.4% usageBrowse teams
#7 Heatran17.2% usageBrowse teams
#8 Pelipper16.2% usageBrowse teams
#9 Hippowdon16.0% usageBrowse teams
#10 Gliscor15.8% 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.
- Darmanitan + Torkoal99.9% teammate shareFind teams
- Pelipper + Swampert-Mega99.8% teammate shareFind teams
- Darmanitan + Venusaur99.0% teammate shareFind teams
- Charizard-Mega-Y + Darmanitan98.9% teammate shareFind teams
- Darmanitan + Gliscor98.7% teammate shareFind teams
- Darmanitan + Slowking98.7% teammate shareFind teams
- Torkoal + Venusaur98.7% teammate shareFind teams
- Comfey + Mew98.3% teammate shareFind teams
Matchups to prepare for
The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.
- Greninja into Landorus-Therian93.0% counter score · 32.198 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Ferrothorn into Tapu Fini65.1% counter score · 24.647 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Tapu Fini into Greninja75.2% counter score · 109.788 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Heatran into Ferrothorn73.2% counter score · 41.905 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Greninja into Zapdos73.9% counter score · 53.504 weighted observationsOpen matchup
- Heatran into Clefable56.0% counter score · 30.316 weighted observationsOpen matchup
Recent tournament teams
Only events with a published, copyable team are included.
- No tournament with published teams matches this format yet.