Garchomp still tops the singles ladder at 37% as Hippowdon, Metagross, and Archaludon surge into the top tier and Blaziken fades.

At 2000+ rating (36 teams), Garchomp still leads at 39%, but Mimikyu (36%) and Aegislash (33%) are right behind it. Aegislash shows the sharpest split in the data: 33% usage at 2000+ versus just 12% in the 1000-1999 band, making it the format's clearest skill-gated pick. Mimikyu (36% vs 24%) and Archaludon (25% vs 16%) show the same pattern, all three rewarding the tighter, more technical play — Disguise mind games, Stance Change timing, Electro Shot sequencing — that tends to separate the high-rated ladder from the rest.

Meanwhile Blaziken (15% vs just 3%), Meowscarada (23% vs 17%), and Gyarados (18% vs 14%) all skew toward the 1000-1999 band, pointing to more straightforward offensive tools that newer or less-optimized teams lean on. Garchomp is the exception that proves the rule: it sits at an essentially identical 39% in both bands, the one pick every rating level agrees on.

Meowscarada's Grass-type Flower Trick hits Hippowdon for a clean 2x, yet Hippowdon has still climbed from 18% to 23% since last report, which suggests teams are running it as a general-purpose Ground-type wall and hazard setter rather than specifically to dodge Meowscarada. Meowscarada itself had a rougher week than the raw numbers first suggest: after peaking at 28% last report, it dipped and then climbed back from 21% to 26% across this week, closing strong but still shy of its previous high.

Gardevoir is the week's most instructive breakout, jumping from 3% to 8% specifically because Moonblast punches straight through Garchomp's Dragon typing for a clean 2x hit — a direct, purpose-built answer to the format's most-used Pokémon. Garchomp's own profile makes that threat sharper: it still takes 4x from Ice, the single biggest hole in the sheet atop the ladder. Scizor's rise from 7% to 14% follows the same logic against Mimikyu — Bullet Punch is priority Steel-type STAB for 2x, giving slower teams a way to break through Disguise before Mimikyu gets a Swords Dance rolling.

On the way down, Blaziken's slide is joined by Starmie, Dragapult, Gengar, and Greninja, all fading hard in the second half of the week. There's a real speed story buried in that list: Dragapult, Greninja, Starmie, and Gengar are exactly the fastest Pokémon in this brief, and all four are falling at the same time bulkier, slower picks like Hippowdon are climbing — a shift toward grinding games out rather than winning them on raw speed.

Steel is the format's backbone at 82%, carried by Metagross, Archaludon, and Aegislash, just ahead of Water at 79% (Primarina, Gyarados, Greninja) and Ghost at 73% (Mimikyu, Aegislash, Basculegion) — note that Aegislash straddling both Steel and Ghost is part of why both types sit so high. Dragon (72%, off Garchomp, Archaludon, and Dragonite), Ground (68%, off Garchomp, Hippowdon, and Swampert), and Fairy (68%, off Mimikyu, Primarina, and Mawile) round out a genuinely dense top of the chart, with Dark (66%) and Flying (60%) still showing up on well over half of all teams.

This isn't one type dominating so much as five or six clustering together in the 60-80% range, largely because the same handful of top picks — Garchomp, Mimikyu, Metagross, Archaludon — each feed two or three of these totals at once.