crob.at

Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

Gen 9 RU 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 Noivern30.8% usage
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  2. #2 Entei20.6% usage
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  3. #3 Mimikyu20.5% usage
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  4. #4 Chesnaught20.1% usage
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  5. #5 Bisharp20.1% usage
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  6. #6 Mew18.6% usage
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  7. #7 Yanmega18.5% usage
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  8. #8 Krookodile17.6% usage
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  9. #9 Necrozma16.6% usage
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  10. #10 Kleavor16.6% 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. Ludicolo + Politoed100.0% teammate share
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  2. Barraskewda + Ludicolo99.6% teammate share
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  3. Forretress + Ludicolo99.4% teammate share
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  4. Malamar + Smeargle98.6% teammate share
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  5. Empoleon + Malamar98.1% teammate share
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  6. Basculegion + Ludicolo97.6% teammate share
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  7. Kingdra + Politoed97.3% teammate share
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  8. Barraskewda + Politoed96.9% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Blissey into Noivern62.9% counter score · 32.391 weighted observations
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  2. Slowbro into Entei80.4% counter score · 34.66 weighted observations
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  3. Necrozma into Chesnaught91.5% counter score · 20.181 weighted observations
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  4. Noivern into Yanmega47.3% counter score · 21.123 weighted observations
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  5. Chesnaught into Necrozma4.3% counter score · 20.181 weighted observations
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  6. Chesnaught into Kleavor78.7% counter score · 24.789 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.