Gen 9 OU Meta Pulse
Usage leaders and directional teammate shares from the named source period, conservative matchup observations, and selected tournament teams.
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Usage leaders
The highest-ranked Pokémon in the May 2026 - Jul 2026 source artifact.
#1 Great Tusk32.3% usageBrowse teams
#2 Zamazenta28.7% usageBrowse teams
#3 Gholdengo27.3% usageBrowse teams
#4 Kingambit24.9% usageBrowse teams
#5 Dragonite22.5% usageBrowse teams
#6 Gliscor19.1% usageBrowse teams
#7 Ogerpon-Wellspring17.7% usageBrowse teams
#8 Kyurem17.5% usageBrowse teams
#9 Ting-Lu16.5% usageBrowse teams
#10 Samurott-Hisui14.5% 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.
- Venusaur + Walking Wake99.2% of source teams using Venusaur also included Walking WakeFind teams
- Barraskewda + Pelipper98.8% of source teams using Barraskewda also included PelipperFind teams
- Ninetales + Walking Wake96.8% of source teams using Ninetales also included Walking WakeFind teams
- Great Tusk + Venusaur96.3% of source teams using Venusaur also included Great TuskFind teams
- Blissey + Gliscor95.2% of source teams using Blissey also included GliscorFind teams
- Ninetales + Venusaur90.1% of source teams using Venusaur also included NinetalesFind teams
- Gholdengo + Ribombee86.2% of source teams using Ribombee also included GholdengoFind teams
- Great Tusk + Ninetales86.1% of source teams using Ninetales also included Great TuskFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Iron Valiant into Great Tusk80.7% target KO or switch rate · 6.8% standard error · 53.5% p − 4d score · 98.413 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Cresselia into Zamazenta69.8% target KO or switch rate · 7.5% standard error · 39.6% p − 4d score · 74.139 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Volcarona into Gholdengo82.8% target KO or switch rate · 6.4% standard error · 57.4% p − 4d score · 35.222 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Dondozo into Kingambit82.1% target KO or switch rate · 6.0% standard error · 58.3% p − 4d score · 120.456 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Great Tusk into Dragonite58.3% target KO or switch rate · 5.4% standard error · 36.9% p − 4d score · 251.63 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Kyurem into Gliscor70.0% target KO or switch rate · 4.9% standard error · 50.3% p − 4d score · 248.371 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.