Five Seasons
Two regulations changed the roster. Thirteen names never left the top twenty.
· MetaRoll
Champions has finished five seasons. Regulation M-B added twenty-two Pokémon to the ranked roster in June and M-C added twenty-seven more in September, taking it from 213 to 262. Through all of it, thirteen Pokémon have finished in the top twenty of every single season, and seven of them have never once finished outside the top ten. The regulation change in the middle — the event that rewrote which Pokémon exist — moved the top twenty by an average of 5.9 places.
Five finished seasons · doubles · each season’s final ranking, read on the day it closed, from 13 May to 9 September 2026
Every figure here is a rank and nothing else. The game publishes an order of Pokémon and no usage share beside it, so this page can say that something finished 6th and cannot say by how much. Each season is read once, at its close, which is the only reading of a season that is complete.
What is being compared
Five readings, one per finished season, each taken on the day that season closed: 13 May, 17 June, 8 July, 5 August and 9 September 2026. A closing reading is the only complete one a season has, and comparing five of them is the only way to ask what four months did.
Two hundred and thirteen Pokémon appear in all five, and that is the whole comparison. The twenty-two Pokémon M-B introduced and the twenty-seven that arrived with M-C are left out of every figure below, because something that did not exist in M-1 cannot have moved since. Season M-6 is left out too: it is still being played, and an unfinished season has no closing rank to compare.
The thirteen
Thirteen of the 213 finished top twenty in all five seasons. Each path is one Pokémon’s closing rank, season by season, M-1 on the left to M-5 on the right.
Seven of them have never finished outside the top ten: Kingambit, Garchomp, Sneasler, Basculegion, Sinistcha, Incineroar and Charizard. Garchomp has finished 1st or 2nd in all five, and Sneasler is the only one of the seven ever to touch 10th.
- Kingambit: 4 → 1
- Garchomp: 2 → 2
- Sneasler: 1 → 3
- Basculegion: 5 → 4
- Whimsicott: 14 → 5
- Sinistcha: 6 → 6
- Incineroar: 3 → 7
- Charizard: 8 → 8
- Farigiraf: 11 → 9
- Sylveon: 20 → 11
- Archaludon: 9 → 13
- Pelipper: 10 → 14
- Aerodactyl: 7 → 18
Four months, by where you started
How far each of the 213 moved between its M-1 close and its M-5 close, grouped by where it stood at the start. A Pokémon that finished 4th and then 1st has moved three places: distance is what is counted here, not direction.
This site has already found the same shape inside a single month. The August reading split one season into three bands and found the top one close to static. What is new here is the horizon: four months and a regulation change later, the top twenty has moved less than five places on average and nine in ten of it is still the top twenty.
| Rank band | Pokémon | Avg. places moved | Largest | Didn’t move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–20 | 20 | 4.8 | 29 | 90% |
| 21–50 | 30 | 14.6 | 54 | 67% |
| 51–100 | 50 | 28.6 | 97 | 54% |
| 101+ | 113 | 22.8 | 87 | 76% |
The regulation change did not reach the top
Regulation M-B opened between M-2 and M-3. It added twenty-two Pokémon to a roster of 213 — a tenth of the field, arriving at once. That is the largest single thing that has happened to this game’s ranking, and the clearest test available of whether the top of it is held by these Pokémon or by the shape of the format around them.
Comparing M-2’s close with M-3’s: the top twenty moved an average of 5.9 places, and fourteen of the twenty were still in the top twenty. Over the same change the 21–100 band moved 20.8 places and everything below 100th moved 22.2. Twenty-two Pokémon arrived at once, and between them they took six of the top twenty places.
What did move
The largest moves among the 213, in either direction, between the M-1 close and the M-5 close. Every one of them starts outside the top fifty.
Places moved between the M-1 and M-5 closing rankings
- Rotom-Frost: 97 (#81 → #178, down)
- Tauros-Paldea-Aqua: 88 (#65 → #153, down)
- Lycanroc-Dusk: 87 (#143 → #56, up)
- Orthworm: 81 (#80 → #161, down)
- Manectric: 75 (#88 → #163, down)
- Raichu: 67 (#79 → #12, up)
- Aggron: 64 (#52 → #116, down)
- Toxapex: 53 (#106 → #53, up)
Raichu is the only one of these that ended inside the top twenty, and the only Pokémon outside the thirteen to reach it from below fiftieth.
Method and limits
- An order, not a share. The game publishes a ranking and no usage percentage — every entry in every reading behind this page carries a rank and a null where a share would be. So a Pokémon moving thirty places in the middle of the table cannot be sized: nothing in the capture says whether 60th and 90th are far apart or nearly level. Read the middle bands as movement of unknown size. It is also why the finding on this page is the stillness at the top rather than the churn below it — mid-table ranks packed tightly together would explain the churn, and would explain nothing about the top twenty.
- Only what was there throughout. Every figure is over the 213 Pokémon ranked in all five seasons. M-B’s twenty-two arrivals and M-C’s twenty-seven are excluded by construction, and so is anything that left. Counting an arrival would read its debut as a climb.
- The field grew underneath the ranks. The roster went 213, 213, 235, 235, 235. Finishing 100th of 213 and 100th of 235 are not the same standing, and no correction for that is applied here — which matters more the further down the table a figure sits.
- The seasons are not the same length. M-1 and M-2 ran 35 days, M-3 ran 21, M-4 ran 28 and M-5 ran 35. A closing rank is a whole season’s play, and those are five different amounts of it.
- M-6 is not here. It opened on 9 September and is still being played. Its ranking cannot be compared with a closing one, and this page makes no claim about it.