https://metaroll.app/reports Written-up findings from the Pokémon Champions ranked ladder, read out of the game hourly: what the meta has been doing, over what window, and what the data cannot tell you. en Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-regionals-mega-garchomp-z https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-regionals-mega-garchomp-z Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plenty of players wrote off Mega Garchomp Z, and so did we. It barely showed up at Baltimore, then won Brisbane and Frankfurt on the same weekend — and the set that did it carried a move only one Baltimore Garchomp Z had tried: Earth Power. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-five-seasons-top-twenty https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-five-seasons-top-twenty Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Champions has finished five seasons under two regulations, and the ranked roster grew from 213 Pokémon to 262. Thirteen Pokémon placed top twenty in every one of them, and the regulation change that rewrote the roster moved the top twenty by an average of 5.9 places. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mc-mega-stones https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mc-mega-stones Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Regulation M-C brought six Mega stones. Seven days later five of them are on nearly every Pokémon that can hold them. Garchompite Z is on 42.5%, and it is the only one that takes away the type its holder’s best move is made of. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-rillaboom https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-rillaboom Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Regulation M-C put Rillaboom straight into second place, the highest debut the ladder has recorded. Grassy Surge is why: 30% on its own Grass moves, priority on Grassy Glide, and every Earthquake aimed at its team cut in half. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-golisopod https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-golisopod Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Golisopod is eighth on the ranked ladder and its stone makes it Bug/Steel: Electro Shot, Hurricane and Head Smash stop killing it, and six of the nine Fire attackers in the top thirty start to. We ran the field and its own most common matchups into it both ways, with the Tough Claws this calculator only gave it on 11 September. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-stone-usage https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-stone-usage Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Regulation M-B handed out fifteen Mega Evolutions across sixteen stones. Two are held more often now than in season M-3 and thirteen of the fifteen Megas are held less — and the ones being dropped fastest are not the ones the ladder plays least. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-lucario-z https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-lucario-z Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lucario’s Z stone brings 164 Special Attack, 151 Speed and Aura Guard, which halves the damage of every move that makes contact. Run into the top ten of the ranked ladder and every Mega in the top thirty, both ways, at the builds those are actually played on. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-z-mega-evolutions https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-z-mega-evolutions Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Absol, Garchomp and Lucario get a second Mega Evolution on 9 September 2026. What a Z stone is, the three formes’ base stats, typings and abilities side by side, and a report on each one calculated against the same twenty opponents. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-garchomp-z https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-garchomp-z Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Garchomp’s Z stone trades the Ground typing and forty points of Attack for 141 Special Attack, Levitate and 151 Speed. We ran it into the top ten and every Mega in the top thirty, and then into the Ice attacks the ladder uses to remove a Garchomp. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-absol-z https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-absol-z Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Absol’s Z stone brings 151 Speed, Sharpness and a Dark/Ghost body. We ran it into the top ten and every Mega in the top thirty, both ways: it outruns all of them, and the number one still beats it, because Sucker Punch does not care who is faster. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-staraptor-contrary https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-mega-staraptor-contrary Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Liepard sits at rank 146 on the Champions ladder and its single most common teammate is Mega Staraptor, the tenth most-used Pokémon in the game. It is there to lower Staraptor’s stats on purpose — and a third of Staraptors are built as though attacking is not the point. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-debut-ranks https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-debut-ranks Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Season M-3 added 22 Pokémon to the Champions ranked ladder. Two seasons later 18 of them sit lower than they debuted and none has gained more than eleven places — a first-season ranking is close to the best a newcomer ever manages. https://metaroll.app/reports/pokemon-champions-stat-point-spreads https://metaroll.app/reports/pokemon-champions-stat-point-spreads Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Champions gives you 66 Stat Points and caps each stat at 32, so most builds max two stats and are left holding two. Twenty-one of the twenty-three top-30 builds that get there spend both on HP, where the stat formula halves them into one. https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-ladder-movement-2026-08 https://metaroll.app/reports/champions-ladder-movement-2026-08 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine days of the Pokémon Champions ranked doubles ladder, read from the game hourly. Steelix went 111 → 94 while the top thirty barely moved — and the movement is a trend, not noise.