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Regulation

Tournament Size

Ladder Rating Cutoff

Tournament data covers 133 online events (25+ players) from the last 30 days: 14398 public team lists. Ladder data is the Showdown [Gen 9 Champions] VGC 2026 Reg M-B ladder for 2026-06. Click any Pokémon for its full stats.

Tournament data: Data from Limitless TCG. Ladder data: Smogon usage stats.

Tournament Conversion

Win rates from tournament records (a tie counts half), with Mega forms resolved from held stones — Charizard-Mega-Y and -X count separately. Only Pokémon with at least 100 games and 20 teams are ranked (162 qualify). The underperforming list is limited to Pokémon with at least 5% usage.

▲ Overperforming highest win rates

PokémonUsageWin %Games
Floette-Mega 16.2% #12 55.1% 13471
Blastoise-Mega 4.5% #34 54.4% 3794
Scovillain-Mega 2.7% #44 53.9% 2168
Lycanroc-Dusk 2.0% #49 53.7% 1589
Kingambit 30.5% #4 53.0% 24947
Charizard-Mega-Y 24.8% #6 53.0% 20190
Delphox-Mega 8.7% #20 52.6% 6903
Vivillon 1.7% #55 52.3% 1433
Venusaur 4.5% #33 52.2% 3631
Venusaur-Mega 5.2% #30 52.1% 4104
Toxapex 3.1% #41 51.8% 2511
Basculegion 27.8% #5 51.5% 21877
Ceruledge 3.6% #37 51.2% 2840
Blaziken-Mega 3.3% #39 51.2% 2540
Aerodactyl-Mega 9.8% #18 51.1% 7703

▼ Underperforming popular picks, lowest win rates

PokémonUsageWin %Games
Sableye 5.4% #26 45.1% 4034
Raichu-Mega-Y 8.2% #21 45.2% 5919
Mawile-Mega 7.3% #23 45.4% 5194
Staraptor-Mega 9.8% #19 45.4% 7226
Torkoal 7.4% #22 46.1% 5432
Milotic 5.3% #27 47.5% 4016
Gholdengo 10.1% #17 47.9% 7510
Maushold 5.8% #25 48.5% 4375
Metagross-Mega 11.7% #16 48.5% 9014
Grimmsnarl 14.3% #14 48.5% 10883
Farigiraf 21.0% #9 48.5% 16029
Whimsicott 24.2% #7 48.9% 18549
Hydreigon 5.9% #24 49.1% 4479
Sylveon 17.3% #10 49.3% 13510
Sinistcha 31.6% #3 49.3% 24238

Tournament Momentum

Share of tournament teams including each Pokémon in the last 15 days (8863 teams) versus the 15 days before (5535 teams).

▲ Rising

PokémonEarlierRecentChange
Kingambit 26.1% 33.3% +7.24%
Blastoise-Mega 1.1% 6.7% +5.54%
Charizard-Mega-Y 21.5% 26.9% +5.46%
Farigiraf 17.9% 23.0% +5.16%
Incineroar 31.2% 35.6% +4.40%
Sylveon 15.1% 18.8% +3.71%
Aerodactyl-Mega 7.6% 11.1% +3.48%
Delphox-Mega 6.5% 10.0% +3.47%
Sneasler 20.2% 22.9% +2.62%
Venusaur-Mega 3.7% 6.1% +2.39%
Toxapex 1.8% 4.0% +2.18%
Ceruledge 2.3% 4.5% +2.18%
Venusaur 3.3% 5.3% +2.02%
Excadrill 1.7% 3.2% +1.51%
Gengar-Mega 2.5% 3.9% +1.39%

▼ Falling

PokémonEarlierRecentChange
Basculegion 33.3% 24.4% -8.89%
Metagross-Mega 16.0% 9.1% -6.91%
Pelipper 20.6% 14.2% -6.41%
Swampert-Mega 17.3% 11.5% -5.74%
Floette-Mega 19.6% 14.0% -5.57%
Grimmsnarl 17.6% 12.3% -5.35%
Sinistcha 34.8% 29.6% -5.26%
Whimsicott 27.4% 22.2% -5.25%
Staraptor-Mega 12.8% 7.8% -5.02%
Gholdengo 12.8% 8.3% -4.45%
Archaludon 18.0% 14.3% -3.71%
Garchomp 38.8% 35.6% -3.18%
Mawile-Mega 8.3% 6.7% -1.59%
Pyroar-Mega 4.0% 2.5% -1.52%
Sableye 6.3% 4.9% -1.48%

Cores

Pokémon cores pooled across tournament teams (at least 100 games and 20 teams). Best win rate ranks established cores (at least 1% of teams); most common shows what to prepare for; best synergy surfaces cores whose combined win rate beats both members' overall win rates, however niche. Click a core to see the teams running it.

CoreUsageWin %GamesLift
Lycanroc-Dusk + Scovillain-Mega 1.0% 145 teams 60.3% 860 +6.4%
Froslass-Mega + Scovillain-Mega 1.0% 145 teams 59.1% 849 +5.2%
Basculegion + Lycanroc-Dusk 1.2% 180 teams 58.9% 1052 +5.2%
Kingambit + Lycanroc-Dusk 1.3% 193 teams 58.4% 1130 +4.7%
Floette-Mega + Kingambit 7.7% 1107 teams 58.3% 6795 +3.2%
Lycanroc-Dusk + Sneasler 1.1% 162 teams 58.3% 938 +4.6%
Basculegion + Scovillain-Mega 1.4% 206 teams 58.0% 1206 +4.1%
Kingambit + Scovillain-Mega 1.2% 177 teams 58.0% 1038 +4.1%
Charizard-Mega-Y + Floette-Mega 5.1% 734 teams 57.5% 4442 +2.4%
Scovillain-Mega + Sneasler 1.3% 191 teams 57.5% 1107 +3.6%
Froslass-Mega + Lycanroc-Dusk 1.1% 165 teams 57.3% 939 +3.6%
Blastoise-Mega + Sneasler 3.4% 484 teams 57.1% 2923 +2.7%
Blastoise-Mega + Incineroar 3.4% 486 teams 56.9% 2910 +2.5%
Floette-Mega + Incineroar 7.5% 1076 teams 56.6% 6350 +1.5%
Floette-Mega + Sinistcha 6.9% 994 teams 56.6% 5830 +1.5%

Ladder vs Tournament

Share of teams including each Pokémon on the Showdown ladder (1760+ rated, 2026-06) versus in online tournaments. Big gaps show where ladder practice and tournament reality part ways.

Tournament staples the ladder underrates

PokémonLadderTournamentGap
Charizard-Mega-Y 17.9% 24.8% +6.90%
Kingambit 24.6% 30.5% +5.90%
Sylveon 12.6% 17.3% +4.71%
Aerodactyl-Mega 5.3% 9.8% +4.45%
Sneasler 18.1% 21.9% +3.74%
Garchomp 33.9% 36.9% +2.99%
Incineroar 31.1% 34.0% +2.83%
Delphox-Mega 6.3% 8.7% +2.39%
Venusaur 2.6% 4.5% +1.92%
Venusaur-Mega 3.3% 5.2% +1.86%
Tyranitar-Mega 2.5% 4.0% +1.56%
Blastoise-Mega 3.0% 4.5% +1.52%
Froslass-Mega 3.9% 5.2% +1.35%
Blaziken-Mega 2.2% 3.3% +1.02%
Ceruledge 2.7% 3.6% +0.96%

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PokémonLadderTournamentGap
Staraptor-Mega 14.7% 9.8% -4.89%
Basculegion 31.7% 27.8% -3.94%
Whimsicott 27.2% 24.2% -3.03%
Mawile-Mega 10.0% 7.3% -2.72%
Torkoal 9.9% 7.4% -2.46%
Metagross-Mega 13.9% 11.7% -2.20%
Pelipper 18.6% 16.7% -1.88%
Staraptor 3.1% 1.3% -1.73%
Annihilape 5.0% 3.2% -1.73%
Sinistcha 33.2% 31.6% -1.63%
Pyroar-Mega 4.7% 3.1% -1.61%
Gholdengo 11.6% 10.1% -1.56%
Floette-Mega 17.6% 16.2% -1.43%
Maushold 7.1% 5.8% -1.33%
Raichu-Mega-Y 9.5% 8.2% -1.32%