crob.at

Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

Gen 9 Monotype 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 Archaludon21.7% usage
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  2. #2 Dragapult21.2% usage
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  3. #3 Greninja17.2% usage
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  4. #4 Goodra-Hisui17.0% usage
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  5. #5 Skarmory15.8% usage
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  6. #6 Samurott-Hisui15.1% usage
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  7. #7 Landorus14.2% usage
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  8. #8 Gliscor14.0% usage
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  9. #9 Flutter Mane12.8% usage
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  10. #10 Meowscarada12.6% 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. Ninetales + Ogerpon-Hearthflame99.7% teammate share
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  2. Cinderace + Ninetales99.6% teammate share
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  3. Kingdra + Pelipper99.3% teammate share
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  4. Blissey + Zoroark-Hisui99.2% teammate share
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  5. Barraskewda + Pelipper99.0% teammate share
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  6. Ceruledge + Ninetales99.0% teammate share
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  7. Terapagos + Zoroark-Hisui99.0% teammate share
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  8. Forretress + Volcarona99.0% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Gholdengo into Archaludon86.8% counter score · 128.484 weighted observations
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  2. Samurott-Hisui into Dragapult71.1% counter score · 69.107 weighted observations
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  3. Muk-Alola into Greninja83.3% counter score · 25.785 weighted observations
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  4. Samurott-Hisui into Goodra-Hisui97.0% counter score · 52.269 weighted observations
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  5. Gholdengo into Skarmory96.2% counter score · 123.532 weighted observations
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  6. Dragonite into Samurott-Hisui81.7% counter score · 20.402 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.