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If you want to compare to Season M-5: Top 40 Most Used Pokemon for Season M-5

The data is all in this spreadsheet. If i made any mistake let me know!

Everything was rounded to the nearest percent, and Mega Evolutions were counted separately from their base form, but a mega winning counts as the base form winning.

If you want to compare to Season M-3: Top 40 Usage for Season M-3

I want shiny Manaphy. I've been using this video.

I am using a modded 3DS (New XL). The HeartGold is not a physical cartridge. I soft reset the game upon first timer. After putting my Raikou/Entei/Latias roamer locations into the Seed to Times thing, it tells "No match was found for your roaming Pokemon". Same thing when calling Irwin.

Essentially just not even at all close to the delay I'm trying to hit and I don't know why or how to solve that. Hopefully the information here is enough to help.

24 Total Teams

Link to Event

I'd include Day 1/2 Top 40 or whatever but I'm feeling lazy today

If you want to compare to Season M-2: Top 40 Usage for Season M-2

I also wanted to make a post about this but didn't really know how, so since its related I'll say it here;

the warm-up challenge had 720k participants
the global challenge had 411k
the may monthly challenge had 333k
the june monthly challenge had 1.3m

so if you were wondering how much that mobile launch did... over a million players joined a tournament.
you can tell how much its grown by the incineroar and whimsicott usage in a single battles tournament!

If you want to compare to Season M-1:
Top 50 Usage for Season M-1 (Doubles)
Top 50 Usage for Season M-1 (Singles)

ladder usage barely changes after the first few days and i cant tell if its a feedback loop (low ladder player sees high usage mons, uses them, contributes to high usage), or if the mons just see so much usage early on that its impossible for significant change even after meta developments... actually its probably both

Image is just stuff im theorizing about rn. Something to look at. Also this is a VGC post, because Raichu-X will be a bum in Singles.

Anyway, Raichu-Y is the very obvious and clear winner of the two, with speed control in the form of 120 BP STAB Zap Cannons off 160 Special Attack, and the 3rd fastest Fake Out of all time.

Raichu-X is a little more complicated. Volt Tackle hits hard but its health bar will vanish after using it like, twice, which undermines the bulk its supposed to have over Raichu-Y. Also Tapu Koko will make this mon unviable the second it shows up.

Raichu-X does have something going for it though, that being a Rising Voltage that hits harder than Raichu-Y Zap Cannon

32 SpA Raichu Rising Voltage (140 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Sneasler in Electric Terrain: 145-172 (93.5 - 110.9%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
32 SpA Raichu Zap Cannon vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Sneasler: 144-169 (92.9 - 109%) -- 50% chance to OHKO

Its Volt Tackle IS stronger, but no so much to make the recoil worth it imo.

32 Atk Raichu Volt Tackle vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Abomasnow in Electric Terrain: 87-102 (52.7 - 61.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
32 SpA Raichu Rising Voltage (140 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Abomasnow in Electric Terrain: 69-82 (41.8 - 49.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

Now obviously hitting slightly harder than Raichu-Y isn't anything special at all, but when its being support by Iron Bundle providing both BoltBeam and speed control in the form Icy Wind, as well as the crazy power of something like an Iron Valiant shooting off Dazzling Gleams and Moonblasts, which also pair well with Electric STAB, it could make for very powerful teams.

Of course, this is all relying on both Tapu Koko not existing, and Paradox Pokemon being in the game. If neither of these are met, Raichu-X is poop from a butt.

Anyway the main point of this post was just to spread the message that Rising Voltage is way more worth it than Volt Tackle on Raichu-X. As a side note, even invested into its Special Attack completely, its Physical Attack is still higher, so you could run Physical coverage alongside Rising Voltage like Play Rough or Knock Off or whatever.

If the Whimsicott and Incineroar didn't make it obvious enough, a lot of people played in this with their doubles team...

I would know because I fought multiple of them.

Sneasler falling in day 2 usage just to clutch

I wish Champions usage data would differentiate the megas from the base forms but i understand why they don't.

Part of me thinks maybe i should downsize to top 40 usage instead, because uh Garchomp-M/Tsareena/Espathra are sitting at 1.78% usage, as opposed to Hydreigons 3.95% usage, but uh idk

So i lowkey forgot about BSS when i posted usage a few days ago so uhhh im doing it now
this is my gimmick now im going to be the champions usage guy

unrelated i wanna know which version of this is the best way to display mega usage i havent really figured it out

idk if this is a good way to display mega evolutions but i wanted to include them in comparison to their base form so i did that.

also if anyone wants the tiermaker here. I hadn't been able to find any tiermaker with both every pokemon/form in champions using the sprites from champions so i made it myself.