Global Challenge II ran from October 30 to November 2 under Regulation M-C, as Double Battles. The game’s own stats list 214,075 players in the Masters Division and 15,698 in the Junior Division, so this is one event with two very large groups of players.
These stats give usage ranks and the share of each Pokémon’s teams running each move, item and ability. They don’t include win rates, so they show what each division used and not which choices worked better.
The top of the list is similar, and then it splits
Garchomp is the most-used Pokémon in both divisions. Six of the top 10 are the same, and so are 22 of the top 30.
Some Pokémon rank much higher in Junior:
- Lucario: #5 in Junior, #42 in Masters
- Gyarados: #17 in Junior, #55 in Masters
- Greninja: #20 in Junior, #60 in Masters
- Steelix: #25 in Junior, #80 in Masters
Others rank much higher in Masters:
- Milotic: #20 in Masters, #62 in Junior
- Volcarona: #33 in Masters, #71 in Junior
- Excadrill: #32 in Masters, #61 in Junior
Protect is the clearest set difference
Among Pokémon in the top 30 of both divisions, Protect makes up seven of the 15 set differences on our competitions page, and Junior is lower every time:
- Gengar: 62.8% in Masters, 12.1% in Junior
- Dragonite: 50.4% in Masters, 10.9% in Junior
- Tyranitar: 79.4% in Masters, 34.5% in Junior
- Charizard: 82.5% in Masters, 38.9% in Junior
- Gardevoir: 80.0% in Masters, 46.2% in Junior
- Salamence: 81.2% in Masters, 48.1% in Junior
- Gholdengo: 81.4% in Masters, 49.2% in Junior
Other sets differ too. Sylveon holds Fairy Feather on 77.1% of Masters teams and 38.8% of Junior teams, and it runs Shadow Ball on 12.7% of Masters teams and 43.4% of Junior teams. Kingambit runs Defiant on 90.8% of Masters teams and 60.7% of Junior teams.
What this can’t tell you
The numbers don’t explain why the divisions differ, and a lower share doesn’t mean a choice is worse. Each share is within one Pokémon, so it can’t be compared with usage on the rest of this site. We don’t have Senior Division stats for this event, so Senior isn’t part of the comparison.
The competitions page has the full comparison, and the methodology explains how we read the game’s data.
The data for this article is saved in this file. The game doesn’t publish win rates for these stats; see how we read them.