Strategy Guides & Metagame Analysis
Rillaboom's 37.32% usage and 50.88% team win rate offer a practical guide to reading Showdown Tier rankings, move statistics, and team-building data.
The top four matched in order, and 27 of the top 30 overlapped. Comparing Global Challenge I Masters usage ranks with the pre-event Showdown Tier ladder.
Revisiting early Regulation M-C through 98,087 ladder battles, Victory Road results, and Baltimore: returning team cores, Indeedee sand, and new Archaludon rain teams.
An early Regulation M-C analysis of Rillaboom, new Mega Evolutions, Archaludon rain teams, and the changing fortunes of M-B favorites across 25,987 ladder battles.
A post-Worlds comparison of our Regulation M-B ladder analysis with Masters usage, Day 2 conversion, Top Cut teams, and the tournament-winning Mega Dragonite adaptation.
A pre-Worlds look at the Regulation M-B Pokémon Showdown metagame, covering the top tiers led by Kingambit and Basculegion, two high-performing archetype families, and underexplored Pokémon posting strong results.
An early look at the first-week Regulation M-A metagame, covering leading Mega Evolution choices, top standard Pokemon, and promising underexplored threats.
A retrospective look at the formats analyzed on Showdown Tier, examining what balanced and unbalanced metagames look like through usage and win-rate data, from OU and Regulation F to Terastal Crescendo.
Our plans for covering the Pokémon Champions metagame on Showdown Tier, including a focus on Double Battles and early expectations for the Mega Evolution format.
A data-driven look at how the most commonly used Restricted Legendary pairings in Regulation I stack up against each other, featuring a matchup matrix with win rates across a large number of games.
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