Garchomp still tops the singles ladder at 32% but is fading fast (down from 38% last report), while Dragonite's explosive climb to 18% brings a Draco Meteor answer straight to its doorstep.

The 2000+ bracket (21 teams) plays a noticeably different game than the mass of 1000-1999 (157 teams). Garchomp is even more dominant up top at 38% versus 34% in the mid band, but the real gap is in the tech picks: Aegislash sits at 29% in the top band against just 5% below it, Blastoise is 24% versus 2%, and Ninetales is 24% versus 3%. Those are the classic skill-skewed reads — Pokémon that need precise play (Aegislash's stance-switching, Blastoise's bulky setup lines, Ninetales' weather and speed control) to actually pay off, and it's the high-rated players who are running them.

Flip it around and the mid band tells you what's simply easy to pick up and win with. Meowscarada is 18% in the 1000-1999 range and basically absent up top at 0%, Hippowdon runs 17% versus just 5% in the top band, and Blaziken sits at 17% versus 5%. These are consistent, low-execution-cost picks — straightforward hazard-setters and breakers that don't demand the same precision as the top-band techs, which is exactly why they cluster so hard in the larger, lower-rated pool.

Garchomp's slide isn't happening in a vacuum — the picks rising hardest are the ones built to answer it. Dragonite and Dragapult both carry Draco Meteor, and Dragon-type STAB is super effective against Garchomp, so their surge reads as the field actively arming up against the format's biggest target. Primarina's climb tells the same story from a different angle, packing Moonblast for Fairy coverage that also cracks Garchomp wide open. And Garchomp still carries a genuine liability underneath all of it — it takes 4x damage from Ice, so any team running Ice coverage has a clean answer sitting right there.

Scizor's rise (3% to 9%, peaking at 2030 for あおすく®️) lines up with Bullet Punch punishing Mimikyu, the format's clear #2, giving priority-based Steel pressure into a Pokémon that otherwise just sets up Swords Dance and swings. On the other side of the ledger, Blaziken cratered from 17% to 7% within the week — the sharpest single fall in the data — while Ninetales (Alola) (9% to 5%), Corviknight (9% to 6%) and Archaludon (13% to 10%) all bled usage too. Archaludon's drop is the more telling one long-term: it was at 22% last report and has now roughly halved to 12% overall, suggesting its Steel/Dragon defensive profile just isn't holding up against a field increasingly packing the Ice, Fairy and Dragon coverage that hurts it.

Water leads the type chart at 78% team presence, carried by Primarina, Gyarados and Greninja all sitting inside the overall top ten, followed closely by Steel (73%, via Metagross, Archaludon and Corviknight) and Dark (72%, via Meowscarada, Greninja and Hydreigon). Ghost (70%), Dragon (66%), Ground (66%), Fairy (66%) and Fire (65%) round out a genuinely flat spread — no single type is close to defining the format the way Garchomp defines the individual rankings, and Dragon's share in particular should keep climbing if Dragonite and Dragapult keep trending up.