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Tournament Size

Tournament data covers 30 online events (25+ players) from the last 30 days: 2331 public team lists. 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 (68 qualify). The underperforming list is limited to Pokémon with at least 5% usage.

▲ Overperforming highest win rates

PokémonUsageWin %Games
Kommo-o 0.9% #71 65.3% 101
Swampert-Mega 3.5% #41 58.3% 429
Glimmora-Mega 1.5% #58 55.4% 168
Raichu-Mega-Y 8.5% #17 54.7% 994
Gengar-Mega 2.6% #46 54.7% 287
Gholdengo 15.5% #11 54.4% 1829
Politoed 3.1% #43 54.3% 350
Froslass-Mega 5.8% #26 54.2% 688
Archaludon 10.1% #16 54.1% 1209
Floette-Mega 16.9% #8 53.8% 1978
Aerodactyl-Mega 2.7% #45 53.2% 316
Glimmora 1.2% #62 53.1% 143
Arcanine-Hisui 12.7% #13 52.8% 1445
Toxapex 2.0% #51 52.6% 247
Venusaur 3.9% #37 52.5% 476

▼ Underperforming popular picks, lowest win rates

PokémonUsageWin %Games
Torkoal 5.8% #27 41.5% 629
Whimsicott 7.0% #23 41.8% 735
Armarouge 5.4% #30 43.9% 581
Lucario-Mega-Z 7.2% #22 44.8% 837
Indeedee-F 19.0% #7 45.1% 2087
Gardevoir-Mega 8.2% #18 45.5% 883
Milotic 8.1% #19 45.7% 916
Garchomp 8.1% #20 45.8% 960
Golisopod-Mega 16.8% #10 46.4% 1889
Sinistcha 7.3% #21 46.5% 819
Farigiraf 16.8% #9 47.4% 1912
Tyranitar-Mega 6.3% #24 47.8% 717
Sylveon 10.6% #14 48.4% 1206
Basculegion 27.5% #6 48.8% 3058
Kingambit 30.6% #5 49.1% 3393

Top Cut Conversion

Usage share among all 2331 public teams versus the 473 that finished in their event's Top 16 — the biggest gains and drops in usage share, like the tournament overview's Biggest Movers. Only Pokémon with at least 2% usage on one side are ranked.

▲ Rising more common in the top cut

PokémonAllTop 16Δ
Gholdengo 15.5% 19.9% +4.4
Archaludon 10.1% 13.5% +3.4
Sneasler 48.4% 51.6% +3.2
Salamence-Mega 37.7% 40.8% +3.1
Floette-Mega 16.9% 19.9% +2.9
Charizard-Mega-Y 10.1% 12.7% +2.6
Arcanine-Hisui 12.7% 15.2% +2.5
Raichu-Mega-Y 8.5% 11.0% +2.5
Froslass-Mega 5.8% 8.2% +2.4
Swampert-Mega 3.5% 5.3% +1.8

▼ Falling less common in the top cut

PokémonAllTop 16Δ
Indeedee-F 19.0% 15.6% -3.4
Gardevoir-Mega 8.2% 5.7% -2.5
Milotic 8.1% 5.7% -2.4
Baxcalibur-Mega 4.8% 2.5% -2.3
Armarouge 5.4% 3.4% -2.0
Golisopod-Mega 16.8% 14.8% -2.0
Farigiraf 16.8% 15.0% -1.8
Torkoal 5.8% 4.2% -1.6
Absol-Mega-Z 2.4% 1.1% -1.3
Garchomp-Mega-Z 4.5% 3.2% -1.3

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
Floette-Mega + Raichu-Mega-Y 1.3% 30 teams 67.3% 171 +12.6%
Golisopod-Mega + Swampert-Mega 1.6% 38 teams 63.8% 210 +5.5%
Gholdengo + Raichu-Mega-Y 4.2% 97 teams 62.6% 540 +7.9%
Politoed + Rillaboom 1.8% 41 teams 62.5% 216 +8.2%
Arcanine-Hisui + Froslass-Mega 1.5% 36 teams 62.4% 173 +8.2%
Archaludon + Politoed 1.5% 34 teams 60.7% 173 +6.4%
Incineroar + Raichu-Mega-Y 2.7% 62 teams 60.4% 328 +5.7%
Gengar-Mega + Politoed 1.4% 32 teams 60.4% 149 +5.7%
Grimmsnarl + Swampert-Mega 1.6% 38 teams 59.8% 209 +1.5%
Incineroar + Volcarona 1.4% 33 teams 59.7% 159 +8.9%
Floette-Mega + Sinistcha 1.3% 30 teams 59.3% 162 +5.5%
Archaludon + Venusaur 1.1% 26 teams 59.2% 157 +5.1%
Pelipper + Venusaur 1.1% 26 teams 59.2% 157 +6.7%
Incineroar + Toxapex 1.1% 25 teams 59.1% 132 +6.5%
Archaludon + Swampert-Mega 3.0% 70 teams 58.9% 377 +0.6%