Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Genie Coefficient - Global Challenge 2024 III #4
8It’s that time again—here is the top 75 most-used Pokémon for the month of March 2024. Next month will be the beginning of Regulation G, which allows one Restricted Pokémon per team. I have no idea how they’ll handle the list afterwards, considering that the Restricted Pokémon would show up in a lower quantity than the ones not restricted. Will they have separate lists? Who knows? Here’s what we DO know, however, about last month:
1. Flutter Mane (±0)
2. Ogerpon (±0)
3. Incineroar (±0)
4. Raging Bolt (+1)
5. Rillaboom (+2)
6. Urshifu (Rapid Strike) (+2)
7. Tornadus (Incarnate) (-1)
8. Landorus (Incarnate) (+1)
9. Chien-Pao (+1)
10. Urshifu (Single Strike) (-6)
11. Amoonguss (±0)
12. Farigiraf (±0)
13. Dragonite (+2)
14. Torkoal (+5)
15. Indeedee (Female) (-1)
16. Archaludon (+1)
17. Chi-Yu (-1)
18. Gholdengo (±0)
19. Ursaluna (Bloodmoon) (-6)
20. Gouging Fire (±0)
21. Whimsicott (±0)
22. Ninetales (Alolan) (+23)
23. Arcanine (Hisuian) (+23)
24. Cresselia (+3)
25. Iron Hands (-1)
26. Entei (-4)
27. Kingambit (-4)
28. Walking Wake (+2)
29. Ting-Lu (-4)
30. Ursaluna (Hisuian) (+2)
31. Articuno (Kantonian) (+79)
32. Dondozo (-1)
33. Glimmora (-7)
34. Okidogi (+17)
35. Annihilape (-1)
36. Pelipper (-7)
37. Iron Crown (-9)
38. Landorus (Therian) (+1)
39. Tyranitar (+10)
40. Roaring Moon (-7)
41. Grimmsnarl (-3)
42. Iron Bundle (-2)
43. Metagross (-7)
44. Heatran (±0)
45. Corviknight (+8)
46. Hatterene (-3)
47. Thundurus (Incarnate) (-6)
48. Armarouge (-6)
49. Primarina (-14)
50. Sinistcha (-3)
51. Zapdos (Galarian) (+3)
52. Tatsugiri (Curly) (-4)
53. Scizor (-1)
54. Baxcalibur (-4)
55. Porygon2 (-18)
56. Gallade (±0)
57. Comfey (+4)
58. Smeargle (+2)
59. Garchomp (+9)
60. Sneasler (-3)
61. Moltres (Galarian) (+6)
62. Sableye (+26)
63. Volcarona (+12)
64. Excadrill (+16)
65. Latias (-10)
66. Sylveon (+10)
67. Goodra (Hisuian) (-2)
68. Terrakion (-4)
69. Gastrodon (+2)
70. Dragapult (-7)
71. Milotic (-9)
72. Indeedee (Male) (-2)
73. Glastrier (+58)
74. Maushold (-2)
75. Lilligant (Hisuian) (-2)
Raise your hand if, at any point in any previous generation, you ever thought (Kantonian) Articuno would ever be ranked higher than Metagross on a competitive usage list. Certainly, I would NOT raise my hand! Articuno’s ascent into the top 50, for what may be the first time in the history of the entire series, is largely due to one of the Regional VGC champions using Kantonian Articuno on their team. It has Snow Cloak and Bright Powder to maximize evasiveness and four Ice-type moves: Blizzard, Ice Beam, Freeze-Dry, and Sheer Cold, with Tera Ice. As it seems, this Articuno happens to counter Wellspring Ogerpon, Raging Bolt, Rillaboom, Tornadus, Ting-Lu, Amoonguss, Dragonite, and Walking Wake, and anything it can’t take out so easily, it relies on evasion and using Sheer Cold until it works. Going first or having priority means nothing if the attack misses!
There is also a smaller boost for Alolan Ninetales, undoubtedly to help set up the snow needed for Articuno to work at its best. Alolan Ninetales is higher up though, so a smaller increase in rank might correspond to a larger increase in absolute usage. We also see Glastrier having moved up a bunch as another beneficiary of snow. Albeit brief, it seems we've entered an era in which snow might be the dominant weather condition, although Torkoal, with Drought, is still further up.
Type: Double Battle
Opponent:
Battle Court: Mesagoza (Central Plaza)
Music: Western Pokémon
My Pokémon:
Opponent’s Pokémon: Thundurus (Incarnate),
Why not compare my opponent’s team to that list above and see how far down the list you go before you find all six Pokémon on their team? If you don’t want to check, that number is 19: Bloodmoon Ursaluna, at 19th place, is the lowest-ranked Pokémon on my opponent’s team according to the usage list.
Of course, as time goes on, new Pokémon get introduced, some become more popular, and others fall by the wayside, I change around my team’s moves, Abilities, hold items, Tera types, and effort points (base stats, officially speaking—I don’t know the official term for what fans call “base stats” though) to adapt to whatever is different. I think this battle is a good example of that, with a team I made one month into the generation taking on a team post-Indigo Disk that could not have won without changes done in the meantime.
Seems my opponent has chosen a look for their trainer very similar to mine though!
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