Reg M-B Week 5 Meta Report: Kingambit takes #1 and sand breaks through
By ChampTeams Editorial
From this week the ChampTeams tier list reads the last two weeks of results instead of the full season, so it tracks the meta you are actually queueing into rather than the one that was true a month ago. That window is 37 qualifying Limitless tournaments and 2,254 player entries. Kingambit is the number one Pokémon, a sand team won a 280-player major, and the recency cut reshapes the S tier: Aerodactyl-Mega and Farigiraf climb in, and the rain pieces Archaludon and Pelipper slide to A. Here is the current Reg M-B tier list, what moved, and the teams winning events.
The tier list is now recency-weighted. It aggregates only tournaments from the last 14 days, so a rising archetype shows up while it is still rising and a fading one drops off instead of being propped up by month-old results. The trade-off is a smaller sample, so the very bottom of the list is thinner than the all-time board. We think the added freshness is worth it for team building.
Meta score is a results-led composite from every 30+ player Champions Reg M-B tournament on Limitless in the last two weeks. 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 Week 5 tier list
| Pokémon | Tier | Win rate | Meta score |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kingambit | S | 54.4% | 172.3 |
 Charizard-Mega-Y | S | 54.5% | 169.6 |
 Garchomp | S | 51.6% | 163.9 |
 Incineroar | S | 51.6% | 162.2 |
 Basculegion | S | 52.4% | 157.7 |
 Aerodactyl-Mega | S | 55.9% | 157.3 |
 Farigiraf | S | 51.4% | 154.6 |
 Sylveon | S | 53.1% | 153.3 |
The recency cut reshapes S
Kingambit is the number one Pokémon at 172.3 on a 54.4% win rate, ahead of Charizard-Mega-Y at 169.6. It is a Dark-and-Steel pivot that fits almost every shell in the format, which is why it tops a board that only counts recent results. The bigger story is the two swaps below the top. Aerodactyl-Mega (55.9%) and Farigiraf (51.4%) climb into S as the two-Mega goodstuffs shell keeps winning, while Archaludon and Pelipper both drop to A. Neither rain piece got worse in a vacuum; rain simply took fewer trophies in the last two weeks than the shells around it, and a recency board reflects that immediately instead of a month later. Garchomp, Incineroar, Basculegion and Sylveon hold the rest of S.
Sand broke through
The clearest riser is sand. Daredevilzz26 won the 280-player Sitrus-Series #67 at 11-1 with Tyranitar-Mega and Excadrill, and both sit comfortably in A on the recency board. Excadrill is up to a 56.3% win rate and Tyranitar-Mega to 55.2%, two of the best marks in the tier. Sand had been a fringe pick for most of Reg M-B; a 280-player trophy is the result that moves it into the conversation with rain and sun.
A · 56.3% WRExcadrill
Sand RushThe engine of the breakout sand team. Under Tyranitar-Mega’s sand it doubles its Speed and outruns most of the format, and its Ground and Steel coverage answers the Fairies and Steels that wall other physical attackers. Its 56.3% win rate over the last two weeks is one of the highest outside S.
A · 55.2% WRTyranitar-Mega
Sand StreamThe sand setter and a heavy attacker in its own right. It pairs its own chip damage with Excadrill’s speed, and the sand also wears down the rain and sun teams it lines up against. On the recency board it is a top-of-A pick, not a niche one.
What is actually winning tournaments
The two-Mega goodstuffs shell is winning the most events, which is exactly why Aerodactyl-Mega and Farigiraf just climbed into S. The single largest event of the window, the 412-player Maddo’s Cup #10, went to shaikhvgc786 at 13-2 on a two-Mega build pairing Raichu-Mega-Y and Mawile-Mega with Farigiraf, Garchomp, Vivillon and Torkoal. Read the list below as what beat everyone in a given room, not what everyone brought.
| Player | Result | Team |
|---|---|---|
| shaikhvgc786 (Maddo’s Cup #10, 412p) | 13-2 |  Raichu-Mega-YFarigiraf Mawile-MegaGarchomp Vivillon Torkoal |
| Daredevilzz26 (Sitrus-Series #67, 280p) | 11-1 | Tyranitar-MegaExcadrill Milotic Sinistcha Staraptor-Mega Gholdengo |
| ToniTheBest (Crown Fight #77, 125p) | 10-1 | Aerodactyl-MegaCharizard-Mega-YSylveonFarigirafGarchompKingambit |
| JoMcCloud23 (Champions #1, 159p) | 11-1 | Charizard-Mega-YAerodactyl-MegaGholdengoIncineroarGarchomp Whimsicott |
| oradar (Open League #2, 169p) | 10-1 | Whimsicott CeruledgeGarchompGholdengoKingambitStaraptor-Mega |
Movers in A
The recency board also lifts a set of A-tier attackers that the all-time list was still rating as niche. Toxapex is up to a 56.2% win rate, and Blastoise-Mega (53.5%) and Milotic (52.2%) both climbed as the redirection and bulky-Water lines converted. Vivillon posted the highest win rate of any regular at 57.4% and showed up on two trophy teams. The pieces losing ground are the ones the goodstuffs shell preys on, plus the rain core that just left S.
Cores that showed up
- Charizard-Mega-Y + Garchomp + Kingambit + Sylveon: the goodstuffs core behind most of the window’s trophies, usually with Farigiraf and a second Mega (Aerodactyl-Mega or Raichu-Mega-Y).
- Tyranitar-Mega + Excadrill: the sand core, the breakout of the last two weeks, backed by a 280-player win.
- Blastoise-Mega + Delphox-Mega: the redirection-offense pair, still the highest real co-occurrence core in the data.
- Gengar-Mega + Politoed: the perish-trap rain line, now A alongside the Pelipper plus Archaludon rain that just slid out of S.
- Froslass-Mega + Lycanroc-Dusk: the snow and Aurora Veil offense shell.
Where Week 5 points next
The two-Mega goodstuffs shell owns the recent trophy list, which is why two of its pieces just entered S and why it has no hard counter yet. The sharp reads are the answers that are converting: the Tyranitar-Mega plus Excadrill sand team that took a 280-player field, and the bulky-Water A-tier (Toxapex, Milotic, Blastoise-Mega) that trades with it. If rain wants its S slots back, it needs a trophy in the next two weeks, because the board will not remember the old ones.
The last-two-weeks board sits at 8 S, 32 A, 19 B, 65 C and 40 D across 164 ranked Pokémon. It is a smaller list than the all-time board by design: with only 14 days of data, fewer Pokémon clear the appearance threshold, so the bottom is thinner and the top is fresher. The live tier list keeps rolling forward as new results land.