crob.at

Weekly competitive metagame snapshots

Edition 2026-08-02

Gen 9 UU 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 Latios27.4% usage
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  2. #2 Excadrill26.5% usage
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  3. #3 Mandibuzz26.1% usage
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  4. #4 Lokix21.9% usage
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  5. #5 Tinkaton18.2% usage
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  6. #6 Skarmory17.8% usage
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  7. #7 Keldeo17.6% usage
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  8. #8 Donphan16.3% usage
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  9. #9 Slither Wing16.1% usage
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  10. #10 Hydrapple15.9% 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. Excadrill + Houndstone99.8% teammate share
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  2. Hippowdon + Houndstone98.7% teammate share
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  3. Hawlucha + Indeedee95.4% teammate share
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  4. Houndstone + Mandibuzz93.2% teammate share
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  5. Clodsire + Vikavolt92.3% teammate share
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  6. Keldeo + Vikavolt92.3% teammate share
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  7. Jirachi + Vikavolt92.3% teammate share
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  8. Thundurus + Vikavolt92.3% teammate share
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Matchups to prepare for

The strongest available counter signal for leading threats.

  1. Blissey into Latios78.1% counter score · 79.98 weighted observations
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  2. Donphan into Excadrill78.2% counter score · 42.953 weighted observations
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  3. Heatran into Mandibuzz80.7% counter score · 23.521 weighted observations
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  4. Skarmory into Lokix81.6% counter score · 94.026 weighted observations
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  5. Slither Wing into Tinkaton83.0% counter score · 20.659 weighted observations
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  6. Skeledirge into Skarmory88.3% counter score · 74.79 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.