Gen 8 National Dex 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 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 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.
- Darmanitan + Torkoal99.9% of source teams using Darmanitan also included TorkoalFind teams
- Pelipper + Swampert-Mega99.8% of source teams using Swampert-Mega also included PelipperFind teams
- Darmanitan + Venusaur99.0% of source teams using Darmanitan also included VenusaurFind teams
- Charizard-Mega-Y + Darmanitan98.9% of source teams using Darmanitan also included Charizard-Mega-YFind teams
- Darmanitan + Gliscor98.7% of source teams using Darmanitan also included GliscorFind teams
- Darmanitan + Slowking98.7% of source teams using Darmanitan also included SlowkingFind teams
- Torkoal + Venusaur98.7% of source teams using Torkoal also included VenusaurFind teams
- Comfey + Mew98.3% of source teams using Comfey also included MewFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Greninja into Landorus-Therian93.0% target KO or switch rate · 4.5% standard error · 75.0% p − 4d score · 32.198 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Ferrothorn into Tapu Fini65.1% target KO or switch rate · 9.6% standard error · 26.7% p − 4d score · 24.647 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Tapu Fini into Greninja75.2% target KO or switch rate · 5.5% standard error · 53.3% p − 4d score · 109.788 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Zapdos into Ferrothorn72.5% target KO or switch rate · 6.5% standard error · 46.5% p − 4d score · 47.191 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Greninja into Zapdos73.9% target KO or switch rate · 6.0% standard error · 49.9% p − 4d score · 53.504 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Heatran into Clefable56.0% target KO or switch rate · 9.0% standard error · 19.9% p − 4d score · 30.316 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.