Gen 9 RU 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 May 2026 - Jul 2026 source artifact.
#1 Noivern30.8% usageBrowse teams
#2 Entei20.6% usageBrowse teams
#3 Mimikyu20.5% usageBrowse teams
#4 Chesnaught20.1% usageBrowse teams
#5 Bisharp20.1% usageBrowse teams
#6 Mew18.6% usageBrowse teams
#7 Yanmega18.5% usageBrowse teams
#8 Krookodile17.6% usageBrowse teams
#9 Necrozma16.6% usageBrowse teams
#10 Kleavor16.6% 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.
- Ludicolo + Politoed100.0% of source teams using Ludicolo also included PolitoedFind teams
- Barraskewda + Ludicolo99.6% of source teams using Ludicolo also included BarraskewdaFind teams
- Forretress + Ludicolo99.4% of source teams using Ludicolo also included ForretressFind teams
- Malamar + Smeargle98.6% of source teams using Malamar also included SmeargleFind teams
- Empoleon + Malamar98.1% of source teams using Malamar also included EmpoleonFind teams
- Basculegion + Ludicolo97.6% of source teams using Ludicolo also included BasculegionFind teams
- Kingdra + Politoed97.3% of source teams using Kingdra also included PolitoedFind teams
- Barraskewda + Politoed96.9% of source teams using Barraskewda also included PolitoedFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Entei into Noivern62.9% target KO or switch rate · 7.9% standard error · 31.4% p − 4d score · 37.733 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Slowbro into Entei80.4% target KO or switch rate · 6.7% standard error · 53.5% p − 4d score · 34.66 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Necrozma into Chesnaught91.5% target KO or switch rate · 6.2% standard error · 66.7% p − 4d score · 20.181 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Noivern into Yanmega47.3% target KO or switch rate · 10.9% standard error · 3.9% p − 4d score · 21.123 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Chesnaught into Necrozma4.3% target KO or switch rate · 4.5% standard error · 13.8% p − 4d score · 20.181 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Chesnaught into Kleavor78.7% target KO or switch rate · 8.2% standard error · 45.8% p − 4d score · 24.789 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.