Gen 9 UU 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 Latios27.4% usageBrowse teams
#2 Excadrill26.5% usageBrowse teams
#3 Mandibuzz26.1% usageBrowse teams
#4 Lokix21.9% usageBrowse teams
#5 Tinkaton18.2% usageBrowse teams
#6 Skarmory17.8% usageBrowse teams
#7 Keldeo17.6% usageBrowse teams
#8 Donphan16.3% usageBrowse teams
#9 Slither Wing16.1% usageBrowse teams
#10 Hydrapple15.9% 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.
- Excadrill + Houndstone99.8% of source teams using Houndstone also included ExcadrillFind teams
- Hippowdon + Houndstone98.7% of source teams using Houndstone also included HippowdonFind teams
- Hawlucha + Indeedee95.4% of source teams using Indeedee also included HawluchaFind teams
- Houndstone + Mandibuzz93.2% of source teams using Houndstone also included MandibuzzFind teams
- Clodsire + Vikavolt92.3% of source teams using Vikavolt also included ClodsireFind teams
- Keldeo + Vikavolt92.3% of source teams using Vikavolt also included KeldeoFind teams
- Jirachi + Vikavolt92.3% of source teams using Vikavolt also included JirachiFind teams
- Thundurus + Vikavolt92.3% of source teams using Vikavolt also included ThundurusFind teams
Observed matchup checks
Ranked by p minus four standard errors; this is not a win rate.
- Blissey into Latios78.1% target KO or switch rate · 6.4% standard error · 52.4% p − 4d score · 79.98 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Skarmory into Excadrill78.0% target KO or switch rate · 6.4% standard error · 52.5% p − 4d score · 124.621 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Arcanine-Hisui into Mandibuzz78.9% target KO or switch rate · 6.9% standard error · 51.5% p − 4d score · 68.932 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Skarmory into Lokix81.6% target KO or switch rate · 6.9% standard error · 54.1% p − 4d score · 94.026 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Excadrill into Tinkaton74.5% target KO or switch rate · 6.0% standard error · 50.6% p − 4d score · 106.608 relevant encountersOpen matchup
- Talonflame into Skarmory83.0% target KO or switch rate · 5.0% standard error · 63.1% p − 4d score · 57.179 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.