crob.at

Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

Gen 9 Anything Goes 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 Calyrex-Shadow61.4% usage
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  2. #2 Miraidon50.0% usage
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  3. #3 Koraidon48.5% usage
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  4. #4 Arceus40.5% usage
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  5. #5 Smeargle27.2% usage
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  6. #6 Ho-Oh26.7% usage
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  7. #7 Arceus-Ground19.6% usage
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  8. #8 Glimmora17.9% usage
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  9. #9 Zacian-Crowned15.9% usage
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  10. #10 Ting-Lu15.8% 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. Incineroar + Smeargle251.6% teammate share
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  2. Flutter Mane + Smeargle231.7% teammate share
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  3. Calyrex-Shadow + Smeargle101.9% teammate share
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  4. Espathra + Vaporeon93.9% teammate share
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  5. Ho-Oh + Lapras93.8% teammate share
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  6. Alomomola + Lapras88.5% teammate share
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  7. Calyrex-Shadow + Zacian-Crowned88.4% teammate share
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  8. Calyrex-Shadow + Flutter Mane88.2% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Kingambit into Calyrex-Shadow71.9% counter score · 769.358 weighted observations
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  2. Blissey into Miraidon78.7% counter score · 242.847 weighted observations
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  3. Dondozo into Koraidon69.3% counter score · 267.632 weighted observations
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  4. Skarmory into Arceus82.5% counter score · 23.53 weighted observations
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  5. Mamoswine into Smeargle93.8% counter score · 68.384 weighted observations
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  6. Garganacl into Ho-Oh86.9% counter score · 80.741 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.