Reg M-B Week 3 Meta Report: the Season M-3 wrap-up
By ChampTeams Editorial
Season M-3 is a wrap. Across the full Reg M-B window we now have 68 qualifying Limitless tournaments and 3,835 validated player entries, so the picture is settled enough to call the season rather than guess at it. Here is the Season M-3 wrap-up: what moved since the Week 2 report, the final Reg M-B tier list, and the cores and best teams that carried the season.
Meta score is a results-led composite from every 30+ player Champions Reg M-B tournament on Limitless. It blends tournament usage, win rate (shrunk toward the mean so small samples are not over-rewarded), top-cut conversion, and event wins, each weighted by how large the event was. Tiers come from the natural gaps in score.
The Season M-3 tier list
| Pokémon | Tier | Win rate | Meta score |
|---|---|---|---|
 Charizard-Mega-Y | S | 55.2% | 168.1 |
 Basculegion | S | 54.1% | 167.8 |
 Garchomp | S | 52.2% | 167.6 |
 Kingambit | S | 54.4% | 166.8 |
 Incineroar | S | 51.5% | 162.0 |
 Sylveon | S | 53.2% | 160.2 |
 Archaludon | S | 54.7% | 160.2 |
 Pelipper | S | 54.2% | 159.4 |
What changed since Week 2
The one headline number: S tier grew from 5 to 8. The Week 2 report locked five Pokémon into S off the first 43 events (Basculegion, Pelipper, Garchomp, Archaludon, Kingambit). With a full season of results in, all five held their spot and three more crossed the cutoff: Charizard-Mega-Y, Incineroar, and Sylveon. Nothing dropped out of S.
This was not a meta explosion. It is the same regulation with a bigger sample. Three high-usage, self-sufficient pieces that sat at the top of A in Week 2 sharpened their win rates over the back half of the season and pulled clear of the pack. Charizard-Mega-Y in particular finished the season as the single highest-rated Pokémon in the format at 168.1, ahead of Basculegion.
A → S · 55.2% WRCharizard-Mega-Y
DroughtThe format's premier sun setter, and now its top-rated Pokémon overall. Its Flying typing sidesteps the Ground moves that punish other sun leads, and it does real work as a raw attacker, so it climbed from the top of A straight to the #1 slot. It anchors the most-played skeleton of the season alongside Garchomp: that pair alone appeared in 18% of teams.
A → S · 51.5% WRIncineroar
IntimidateThe universal Intimidate pivot. Fake Out, Intimidate and Parting Shot are the quiet plays that decide games, and while its own win rate sits just above even, its usage and top-cut presence across the season were high enough to earn S on the full sample. If you do not have a specific reason to leave it off, you run it.
New to S · 53.2% WRSylveon
PixilateThe spread-Fairy nuke. Pixilate Hyper Voice hits both opponents through Protect-baiting and holds up against the Dragons and Dark types near the top of the list. It was outside the Week 2 published top ten and finished the season inside S. It sits on the season's single most-played trio, Garchomp plus Kingambit plus Sylveon, which appeared on 7.1% of teams at a 56.5% win rate.
Risers and movers in A and B
Every tier change this season was a promotion. Nothing dropped a tier and nothing left the list, so the movement below is Pokémon climbing, not falling.
Blastoise-Mega was the season's largest single climb, moving B to A on a roughly 14-point score jump and a 57.7% win rate. Mega Launcher turns its pulse moves into a genuine threat, and it anchors a rising Blastoise-Mega plus Delphox-Mega redirection line that showed up among the top cores.
Mega Metagross, the "riser knocking on S" from Week 2, settled at the top of A rather than breaking through. It finished at 147.4 with a 53.8% win rate, still strong, just short of the cut. Around it, Swampert-Mega (54.9%), Farigiraf, Sneasler, Sinistcha and Whimsicott all held as top-of-A pieces sitting just under the expanded S tier.
A small but coordinated rain resurgence closed the season. Politoed (50.5%), Mega Gengar (51.0%, climbing into A) and Vivillon (50.6%) all rose together behind a Mega Gengar plus Politoed perish-trap rain line. It joins the older Pelipper plus Archaludon rain core rather than replacing it.
Sand also firmed up as the third weather. Mamoswine and Mega Tyranitar both climbed from B to A, feeding an Excadrill plus Mega Tyranitar sand core that appeared in the top-team tables. Sun and Trick Room held their Week 2 shape, led by the Mega Mawile, Mega Pyroar and Torkoal Trick Room sun shell.
Cores that defined the season
- Garchomp + Kingambit + Sylveon: the default M-B trio at 7.1% play and a 56.5% win rate, the most-played three-Pokémon skeleton of the season.
- Charizard-Mega-Y + Farigiraf + Garchomp: sun with a Trick Room fallback, 6.5% play at 58.1%.
- Archaludon + Grimmsnarl + Pelipper: the rain-plus-screens build, 5.5% play at 58.2%.
- Blastoise-Mega + Delphox-Mega: the redirection-offense core behind Mega Blastoise's rise.
- Excadrill + Mega Tyranitar: the sand core, often with Hydreigon or Mega Staraptor as the third slot.
The best teams
The marquee list of the season is a two-Mega goodstuff build that matches the top-performing archetype: Aerodactyl-Mega, Charizard-Mega-Y, Farigiraf, Garchomp, Kingambit and Sylveon, at 58.8% across 158 appearances. It is the most-played full six and pulls together the sun lead, the default trio, and the top-rated attacker in one shell.
| Team | Win rate | Appearances |
|---|---|---|
 Aerodactyl-MegaCharizard-Mega-Y FarigirafGarchompKingambitSylveon | 58.8% | 158 |
Archaludon Grimmsnarl Metagross-MegaPelipper Sinistcha Swampert-Mega | 57.5% | 80 |
Basculegion Froslass-MegaKingambit Lycanroc-Dusk Scovillain-Mega Sneasler | 65.1% | 45 |
BasculegionCharizard-Mega-YGarchomp GholdengoIncineroar Whimsicott | 66.7% | 23 |
Where Season M-4 points
This is a forecast, not a result. The season ended with three separate weather cores (rain, sand, sun) all trending up at once and no hard counter emerging, so early Season M-4 should reward flexible speed control and Intimidate over any single weather commitment. Watch whether Mega Metagross finally clears the S cutoff and whether the rain resurgence holds once opponents adjust.
The final Season M-3 board sits at 8 S, 37 A, 21 B, 37 C and 48 D across 151 ranked Pokémon. The growth at the bottom is low-usage Pokémon newly crossing the appearance threshold, not churn. The live tier list keeps updating into Season M-4 as new results land.