Rankings

How often players actually bring a given Pokémon to ranked battles. This is the only ranking on this page that does not come from base stats, but from what people do.

Alternate forms always count here and cannot be filtered out — in ranked battles Landorus-Therian or Wellspring Mask Ogerpon are separate, widely used Pokémon, not cosmetic variants. Filtering them out, as we do in the stat rankings, would remove the seventh entry of the snapshot from the list.

#	Pokémon	Usage in battles	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe	Total
1	Deoxys (Speed Forme) ✦	6%	50	95	90	95	90	180	600
2	Torkoal	2.4%	70	85	140	85	70	20	470
3	Blaziken	2.3%	80	120	70	110	70	80	530
4	Pelipper	2.2%	60	50	100	95	70	65	440
5	Latios ★	1.8%	80	90	80	130	110	110	600
6	Latias ★	1.3%	80	80	90	110	130	110	600
7	Salamence	0.3%	95	135	80	110	80	100	600
8	Metagross	0.2%	80	135	130	95	90	70	600
9	Jirachi ✦	0.2%	100	100	100	100	100	100	600
10	Gardevoir	0.2%	68	65	65	125	115	80	518
11	Swampert	0.2%	100	110	90	85	90	60	535
12	Crawdaunt	0.2%	63	120	85	90	55	55	468
13	Breloom	0.1%	60	130	80	60	60	70	460
14	Hariyama	0.1%	144	120	60	40	60	50	474
15	Milotic	0.1%	95	60	79	100	125	81	540
16	Deoxys (Defense Forme) ✦	0.1%	50	70	160	70	160	90	600
17	Sableye	0%	50	75	75	65	65	50	380
18	Swalot	0%	100	73	83	73	83	55	467
19	Masquerain	0%	70	60	62	100	82	80	454
20	Ludicolo	0%	80	70	70	90	100	70	480
21	Slaking	0%	150	160	100	95	65	100	670
22	Sceptile	0%	70	85	65	105	85	120	530
23	Flygon	0%	80	100	80	80	80	100	520
24	Shiftry	0%	90	100	60	90	60	80	480
25	Altaria	0%	75	70	90	70	105	80	490
26	Regice ★	0%	80	50	100	100	200	50	580

★ Legendary, ✦ Mythical. Green cells are stats of 120 and higher, red ones — 45 and lower; they show whether a high position comes from an even spread or from one extreme value at the expense of the rest.

Data from 574,541 battles played by people on Pokémon Showdown (Gen 9 OU, 2026-09, players rated above 1695). The ranking always shows the latest available monthly snapshot, not a historical average — so each new snapshot changes the numbers. The statistics are compiled by Smogon.

This is a popularity ranking, not a strength ranking. A high place means players often pick this Pokémon — sometimes because it is excellent, but sometimes because it is cheap to build, conveniently checks popular threats or has simply become fashionable. The percentage is the share of teams it appeared on, not a win rate. Also keep in mind that the list covers a single format: under other rules the order can be completely different. This list is Gen 9 OU — the most popular format with no top-down team restrictions — everything is allowed except what was deemed too strong. The switch above the table shows the other formats we have in our database.

The snapshot covers 309 Pokémon, not all of them on this site — and that is intended. A Pokémon nobody uses does not get a zero here; it is simply absent. A zero percentage would suggest a measurement that never happened.