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Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

Gen 9 OU 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 Great Tusk32.3% usage · +1.1%
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  2. #2 Zamazenta28.7% usage · +3.5%
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  3. #3 Gholdengo27.3% usage · +5.2%
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  4. #4 Kingambit24.9% usage · −1.8%
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  5. #5 Dragonite22.5% usage · +0.4%
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  6. #6 Gliscor19.1% usage · +3.4%
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  7. #7 Ogerpon-Wellspring17.7% usage · −2.3%
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  8. #8 Kyurem17.5% usage · +0.2%
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  9. #9 Ting-Lu16.5% usage · −0.3%
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  10. #10 Samurott-Hisui14.5% usage · +4.5%
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Movement

Only shown when a prior monthly dataset exists.

Rising

  1. Gholdengo+5.2%
  2. Cresselia+4.8%
  3. Samurott-Hisui+4.5%
  4. Zamazenta+3.5%
  5. Gliscor+3.4%

Falling

  1. Pecharunt−4.3%
  2. Deoxys-Speed−4.0%
  3. Iron Moth−2.7%
  4. Ogerpon-Wellspring−2.3%
  5. Hydrapple−2.0%

Popular cores

Strong teammate associations in the source usage data.

  1. Venusaur + Walking Wake99.2% teammate share
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  2. Barraskewda + Pelipper98.8% teammate share
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  3. Ninetales + Walking Wake96.8% teammate share
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  4. Great Tusk + Venusaur96.3% teammate share
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  5. Blissey + Gliscor95.2% teammate share
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  6. Ninetales + Venusaur90.1% teammate share
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  7. Gholdengo + Ribombee86.2% teammate share
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  8. Great Tusk + Ninetales86.1% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Iron Valiant into Great Tusk80.7% counter score · 98.413 weighted observations
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  2. Cresselia into Zamazenta69.8% counter score · 74.139 weighted observations
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  3. Ceruledge into Gholdengo84.2% counter score · 24.185 weighted observations
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  4. Dondozo into Kingambit82.1% counter score · 120.456 weighted observations
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  5. Clefable into Dragonite63.3% counter score · 88.415 weighted observations
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  6. Dondozo into Gliscor74.6% counter score · 88.435 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.