Heading into Day 2 of Pokémon 2025 World Championships, the VGC side is seeing an unprecedented amount of various non-restricted and restricted Pokémon, but the old guard remains at the top of the standings.
To the surprise of no one, Incineroar and Calyrex are both leading in terms of usage going into Day 2, with top trainers utilising both in most of the top rosters. In fact, looking at some of the trainers who have made it into the top 604. It’s hard not to see these two Pokémon dominate most teams, even though there are a few surprise picks among them.
The VGC subreddit has actually put together a list of stats going into Day two, later on, showing the usage of certain non-restricted and restricted Pokémon, as well as the top four restricted Duos. Most of it should be pretty expected for most VGC fans with no real surprises on show this year.
The full list of top non-restricted and restricted Pokémon is as follows:
Top 12 Non-Restricted Pokemon
- Incineroar 54.7%
- Raging Bolt 35.8%
- Urshifu-Rapid Strike 32.1%
- Rillaboom 30.2%
- Amoonguss 26.4%
- Chien-Pao 20.8%
- Flutter Mane 20.8%
- Whimsicott 17%
- Smeargle 15.1%
- Chi-Yu 13.2%
- Ursaluna 13.2%
- (TIE) Ogerpon Hearthflame & Volcarona 11.3%
Top 8 Restricted Pokemon
- Calyrex-Shadow Rider 47.2%
- Calyrex-Ice Rider 34%
- Zamazenta 34%
- Miraidon 30.2%
- Koraidon 20.8%
- Lunala 15.1%
- Kyogre 7.5%
- (Tie) Groudon & Terapagos 3.8%
Top 4 Restricted Duos
- Calyrex-Shadow/Zamazenta 32.1%
- Calyrex-Ice/Miraidon 18.9%
- Calyrex-Shadow/Koraidon 7.5%
- Miraidon/Lunala 7.5%
Incineroar has been a top Pokémon for some years now due to its great setup potential and overall being a strong pick. The major one difference we are seeing, though, is Pokémon like Landorus and Farigiraf (two Pokémon that people might remember fondly at the top last year) falling out of the top usage in day two, with Chi-Yu and Ursaluna seeing a rose.
Some interesting facts going into day two as well are the Pokémon that only have one total team spot in all the day two players, these include:
- Annihilape
- Ditto
- Ho-Oh
- Indeedee-F
- Iron Bundle
- Iron Moth
- Iron Treads
- Maushold Family of Four
- Ogerpon-Wellspring
- Regieleki
- Sneasler
- Ting-Lu
- Torkoal
- Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
- Urshifu-Single Strike
- Zacian
So while there have been a lot of expectations, there is still some chance for some upsets as we await to see who makes it to the top eight tomorrow during Championship Sunday. I, for one, would love to see Iker Rodrigo’s Ditto team somehow pull off an upset and make the cut. But there are still a lot of games to play going into today.
