Data source
Smogon publishes monthly usage statistics at smogon.com/stats. Each file captures one month of battles on the Pokemon Showdown ladder at a specific Elo rating threshold.
Pokestrat ingests two file formats per ladder: chaos JSON (per-Pokemon statistics including moves, items, teammates, and EV spreads) and moveset text files. Data is processed and stored per Pokemon, per format.
Rating cutoffs
Smogon publishes data at multiple rating thresholds: 0, 1500, 1695 or 1760, and 1825 (for high-traffic formats). Pokestrat uses the highest available cutoff to show the most competitive subset of the ladder.
Current cutoffs used by Pokestrat:
- Gen 9 Doubles OU – 1825+
- Gen 9 OU – 1825+
- Gen 9 Doubles Ubers – 1760+
- Gen 9 National Dex – 1760+
- Gen 9 National Dex Ubers – 1760+
- Gen 9 Ubers – 1760+
- Gen 9 UU – 1760+
- Gen 9 Anything Goes – 1630+
- Gen 9 Champions BSS Reg M – 1630+
- Gen 9 Champions OU – 1630+
- Gen 9 Champions UU – 1630+
- Gen 9 Champions VGC 2026 Reg M – 1630+
- Gen 9 Monotype – 1630+
- Gen 9 National Dex Monotype – 1630+
- Gen 9 NU – 1630+
- Gen 9 PU – 1630+
- Gen 9 RU – 1630+
- Gen 9 ZU – 1630+
Update schedule
Stats are updated monthly, after Smogon publishes the previous month's data. Publication usually happens within the first few days of the new month.
Last update: 2026-11-06. Current data month: Oct 2026.
Metrics glossary
- Usage % – percentage of teams including this Pokémon, among all battles at the cutoff rating
- Raw usage – absolute number of team slots filled by this Pokémon
- Rank – position among all Pokémon in the format by usage percentage
- Win rate – percentage of battles won by teams using this Pokémon (from Checks & Counters data; falls back to viability GXE when unavailable)
- Lead rate – percentage of battles where this Pokémon was sent out first
- Teammates % – how often another Pokémon appears on the same team
- Moves / Items / Abilities / Tera types % – usage share among teams that include this Pokémon
- EV spreads – most common effort value distributions with associated natures
- Checks & Counters – Pokémon that most reliably beat or are beaten by this one, by win rate
- Viability ceiling (GXE) – expected win rate of the players who used this Pokémon that month, at the 95th percentile
Limitations
- Ladder only – tournament and official competition performance is not captured
- Rating filter – sets and strategies used exclusively below the cutoff rating are not reflected
- Small-sample formats – lower-traffic ladders have higher statistical variance
- Only formats with Smogon chaos JSON data are tracked; unofficial or very new ladders may be absent