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ChampionsMeta pulls from two external sources to give you accurate, up-to-date competitive data: Limitless TCG for tournament results and PokeAPI for Pokémon details. Understanding where the numbers come from helps you interpret what you see on the Meta Dashboard.
All tournament team data comes from Limitless TCG (limitlesstcg.com), the leading platform for Pokémon VGC event coverage. When a Champions event is posted on Limitless, ChampionsMeta imports the full team lists submitted by top-finishing players — including their Pokémon, moves, items, abilities, and EV spreads when a public team sheet is available.Only Regulation M-A tournaments are imported. Results from other formats are not included in the meta calculations.You can view the original source for any tournament team by clicking the “View on Limitless” link on a team card.
ChampionsMeta runs a daily sync that automatically:
  1. Scans Limitless TCG for newly posted Regulation M-A tournaments
  2. Imports any tournaments not already in the database
  3. Re-runs meta aggregation to update usage stats, top cores, and move/item/ability breakdowns
  4. Refreshes the cached data shown on the Meta Dashboard and home page
After each sync, the dashboard reflects the latest available tournament results. If a tournament was posted very recently, it may take until the next daily sync to appear.
Usage % answers the question: “What fraction of all imported tournament teams included this Pokémon?”The formula is straightforward:
Usage % = (teams containing Pokémon ÷ total teams imported) × 100
Each team is counted once per Pokémon slot, with duplicates within a single team deduplicated. Mega Evolution forms are mapped back to their base form — for example, a team using Mega Charizard X contributes to Charizard’s usage count, not a separate “Mega Charizard X” entry.The Meta Dashboard shows up to 50 Pokémon ranked by usage percentage.Teammate % works the same way: for a given Pokémon, it’s the percentage of that Pokémon’s teams where the listed partner also appeared.
Top cores are Pokémon pairs that appear together frequently across tournament teams. They’re derived from teammate co-occurrence: for every Pokémon on every team, ChampionsMeta tracks which other Pokémon shared that team slot.A core is surfaced when two Pokémon appear together on a notably high percentage of teams that feature either one. The percentage shown next to a core is the co-appearance rate — how often that pair was seen together relative to all teams containing the higher-usage member of the pair.Top cores are displayed on the Meta Dashboard sidebar and give you a quick read on which pairings are defining the current format.
Currently, ChampionsMeta tracks Regulation M-A only — the active format running April 8 through June 17, 2026. All usage stats, top cores, and team imports reflect this format exclusively.Tournament data from other Regulation periods or standard VGC formats is not included. The meta dashboard will be updated if the tracked format changes.
Move, item, ability, and EV spread breakdowns are only available for Pokémon whose source tournaments included public team sheets on Limitless TCG. If those columns appear empty for a Pokémon, the teams that featured it did not have sheet data available at import time.