Pokémon TCG Regional Results: Season Winners and Meta

Last event included

Last event included: Regional Puebla, October 24-25, 2026. Every number below was read from Limitless TCG and Limitless Labs on November 1, 2026. Regional Gdańsk (October 31 to November 1, per the official Play! Pokémon calendar) is still being played and is not included. After it, Limitless's upcoming list shows Stuttgart on November 28, followed by Las Vegas on December 5; this page gets a new row when each event finishes, and the per-event recaps are not being extended.

Seven Regionals have been played in the 2027 season, with 15,303 Masters entries between them. Four different decks have won them. The most-played deck won three, and the two events it did not win that went furthest from the favorites were taken by decks that were under 1% of their field.

The season table

Each event links to our detailed recap where one exists. Field sizes are Masters players per the Limitless tournament pages. "Archetype players" is how many entered the winning deck, from the Limitless Labs metagame table for that event.

Nice and Puebla have no standalone recap and will not get one; this page is where they live. The Recife percentage uses the 1,072 decks Labs has published for that event, which is why it is a hair different from 2 of 1,074.

Who actually won, so far

Tally the winners by deck and the picture is lopsided in a way the per-event recaps could not show:

Dragapult ex is both the most-played deck and the most-winning one, so "the best deck never wins" is not what the first seven events say. Pure Dragapult ex was 2,760 of the 15,270 players Labs lists across the seven events, 18.1%, and won 3 of 7 events, 43%. What it has not done is win the big-field events in the early weeks: Baltimore (3,122) and Frankfurt (2,793) went elsewhere.

Basic Box is the season's other repeat winner. It is the deck we broke down card by card in our Baltimore recap: all Basic Pokémon, led by four Mega Kangaskhan ex, with no evolution lines to disrupt. Its wins came at 5.16% and 7.12% of the field, and Limitless Labs puts its season-long match win rate at 50.3% across 1,008 players, roughly level with pure Dragapult ex at 50.6%. We have a full Basic Box deck guide for the list itself.

The Frankfurt and Recife winners are the outliers. Alakazam / Dusknoir was 26 players in Frankfurt and took both finalist seats. Ogerpon / Meganium / Arboliva was 2 players in Recife and won. Neither has repeated a Regional win, but Alakazam / Dusknoir has grown from 36 players at Baltimore to 79 at Louisville and 68 at Nice.

Top 8 seats versus field share

A Regional winner is one result; eight seats a weekend is a bigger sample. Across seven events that is 56 Top 8 seats. This table compares each deck's share of the season's entries to its share of those seats. Field counts are summed from the Labs archetype tables (15,270 players with a labelled archetype); seats come from the Limitless Top 8 at each event.

Three things stand out, with the caveat that 56 seats is a small sample and a one-seat difference is noise:

• The three main Dragapult builds took 25 of 56 Top 8 seats, 44.6%, from 28.2% of the field (4,321 of 15,303 entries). One more seat went to Dragapult / Dudunsparce at Nice, which Labs files as its own small archetype. The Top 8 is where Dragapult is most over-represented.
• Ogerpon / Meganium decks punch above their share. Five seats from 3.9% of players, including the Recife win. Labs splits the Arboliva and Hydrapple builds into separate archetypes, so no single win rate is shown for the line.
• N's Zoroark and Mega Excadrill are the two big decks with the weakest conversion. Each took one seat. Mega Excadrill also has the lowest season win rate in this table at 44.1% over 713 players, in line with the 44.0% non-mirror figure in our Mega Excadrill guide.

The win-rate column is Limitless Labs' own figure: match points earned over match points available, three for a win and one for a tie. I recomputed each season number from the summed per-event records rather than averaging the per-event percentages.

How the field moved between events

Limitless tags Baltimore with the card pool "Temporal Forces - Pitch Black", and every event after it, Brisbane through Puebla, with "Temporal Forces - 30th Celebration". The label changed once in the season so far, between Baltimore and Brisbane; our 30th Celebration guide has the set. Because the label has not changed since Brisbane, the shifts from Brisbane onward are most likely players changing decks rather than a new card pool.

Shares are Limitless Labs' own percentages for each event. What moved:

• Basic Box grew. From 5.16% at Baltimore to 7.74% at Puebla, with its highest shares at Louisville (7.75%) and Puebla.
• Dhelmise nearly doubled, from 2.98% to 5.49% at Nice and 5.00% at Puebla, after a Top 4 at Louisville and a Top 2 at Nice.
• Alakazam / Dusknoir went from a rounding error to a regular. 0.93% in Frankfurt, then 2.1% to 2.9% in the last four events.
• N's Zoroark slid from 7.79% to 4.94% at Nice, then partly recovered to 6.39% at Puebla.
• Dragapult / Dusknoir halved between Baltimore and Louisville (7.34% to 3.87%) before climbing back to 5.72% at Puebla. The Blaziken ex hybrid went the other way, from 4.97% to 5.85%.
• Mega Excadrill has not found a lane. It peaked at 6.99% in Brisbane, the smallest field, and was 3.22% at Nice.
• The pure Dragapult ex share has stayed in a band of roughly 15% to 24%. Recife's 23.51% is the high. Nothing has pushed it out.

The Top 8 at every event

Placements are the Limitless results pages; deck names are Limitless's archetype labels. Louisville's 8th place is a Mew Box deck, and Limitless's two pages disagree on the first name of that player, so only the surname is given.

Two players made the Top 8 twice, both on pure Dragapult ex both times: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi (2nd at Brisbane, 4th at Puebla) and Brent Tonisson (3rd at Brisbane, 6th at Puebla). No one has made a third.

The 8-seat table also shows how different the weekends were. Brisbane and Puebla had six Dragapult builds in the Top 8 each; Baltimore and Nice had two and one. Brisbane's field was 817 and Puebla's 2,234, so field size does not explain it.

How this was counted

• Source and date. Placements and field sizes: Limitless tournament pages 577 to 583. Archetype counts, shares and records: Limitless Labs event tables 0072 to 0078. All read on November 1, 2026. Labs counts can drift as archetype labels are edited, so re-open the pages before quoting a number.
• Dragapult builds. "Three main builds" means pure Dragapult ex, Dragapult / Dusknoir and Dragapult / Blaziken ex, the definition used in our per-event recaps. Labs files a few dozen more players under small Dragapult-named archetypes (Dudunsparce, Froslass, Alakazam). Using the three-build count, the Dragapult share of each event is: Baltimore 942 of 3,122 (30.2%), Brisbane 195 of 817 (23.9%), Frankfurt 740 of 2,793 (26.5%), Recife 355 of 1,074 (33.1%), Louisville 769 of 2,927 (26.3%), Nice 672 of 2,336 (28.8%), Puebla 648 of 2,234 (29.0%).
• Seats. The Top 8 is used for every event because it is the slice that exists at all seven.
• Legality. We do not use the Pokémon TCG API legalities field, which is stale. Which cards were legal at which event follows the regulation mark rule described in our formats guide.

Quick Action Checklist

• Seven Regionals, four winning decks: Dragapult ex three times, Basic Box twice, Alakazam / Dusknoir once, Ogerpon / Meganium / Arboliva once.
• Last event included: Puebla, October 24-25, 2026. Gdańsk (October 31 to November 1) is not included yet; Limitless then lists Stuttgart, November 28.
• Dragapult is over-represented at the top. 25 of 56 Top 8 seats from 28.2% of the field.
• Basic Box is the deck that grew. 5.16% at Baltimore, 7.74% at Puebla, two wins.
• Mega Excadrill and Alakazam / Dudunsparce have the lowest season win rates in the table, at 44.1% and 44.5%.
• Want a card-by-card list? Use our Dragapult ex guide or Basic Box guide; this page stays at the results level.
• Championship Points: see how the points pay out.