Gen 9 Champions VGC 2026 Reg M-B Best of 3 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 Kingambit54.1% usageBrowse teams
#2 Charizard-Mega-Y44.4% usageBrowse teams
#3 Incineroar42.6% usageBrowse teams
#4 Garchomp40.2% usageBrowse teams
#5 Basculegion37.4% usageBrowse teams
#6 Floette-Mega28.6% usageBrowse teams
#7 Sneasler28.4% usageBrowse teams
#8 Whimsicott27.1% usageBrowse teams
#9 Sinistcha24.4% usageBrowse teams
#10 Sylveon20.4% 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.
- Barbaracle-Mega + Farigiraf99.3% of source teams using Barbaracle-Mega also included FarigirafFind teams
- Barbaracle-Mega + Kangaskhan-Mega99.0% of source teams using Barbaracle-Mega also included Kangaskhan-MegaFind teams
- Barbaracle-Mega + Vivillon98.9% of source teams using Barbaracle-Mega also included VivillonFind teams
- Barbaracle-Mega + Torkoal98.9% of source teams using Barbaracle-Mega also included TorkoalFind teams
- Barbaracle-Mega + Venusaur98.8% of source teams using Barbaracle-Mega also included VenusaurFind teams
- Blastoise-Mega + Sinistcha97.3% of source teams using Blastoise-Mega also included SinistchaFind teams
- Blastoise-Mega + Incineroar96.1% of source teams using Blastoise-Mega also included IncineroarFind teams
- Archaludon + Pelipper95.9% of source teams using Pelipper also included ArchaludonFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Sneasler into Kingambit46.8% target KO or switch rate · 2.3% standard error · 37.7% p − 4d score · 473.14 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Garchomp into Charizard-Mega-Y56.9% target KO or switch rate · 1.8% standard error · 49.5% p − 4d score · 733.176 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Basculegion into Incineroar55.0% target KO or switch rate · 1.7% standard error · 48.1% p − 4d score · 852.117 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Basculegion into Garchomp47.7% target KO or switch rate · 2.5% standard error · 37.6% p − 4d score · 394.081 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Kingambit into Basculegion47.2% target KO or switch rate · 2.0% standard error · 39.0% p − 4d score · 603.851 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Venusaur into Floette-Mega64.0% target KO or switch rate · 4.9% standard error · 44.4% p − 4d score · 96.755 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.