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	Hawlucha	4.3%	78	92	75	74	63	118	500
2	Hoopa (Unbound) ✦	4%	80	160	60	170	130	80	680
3	Volcanion ✦	2.1%	80	110	120	130	90	70	600
4	Klefki	1%	57	80	91	80	87	75	470
5	Chesnaught	0.7%	88	107	122	74	75	64	530
6	Hisuian Goodra	0.6%	80	100	100	110	150	60	600
7	Talonflame	0.5%	78	81	71	74	69	126	499
8	Greninja	0.4%	72	95	67	103	71	122	530
9	Noivern	0.3%	85	70	80	97	80	123	535
10	Dragalge	0.2%	65	75	90	97	123	44	494
11	Diancie ✦	0.1%	50	100	150	100	150	50	600
12	Clawitzer	0.1%	71	73	88	120	89	59	500
13	Sylveon	0%	95	65	65	110	130	60	525
14	Goodra	0%	90	100	70	110	150	80	600
15	Delphox	0%	75	69	72	114	100	104	534
16	Trevenant	0%	85	110	76	65	82	56	474
17	Hoopa ✦	0%	80	110	60	150	130	70	600
18	Florges	0%	78	65	68	112	154	75	552

★ 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.