How the numbers work

Everything on PocketMeta is calculated from real tournament results, recomputed every day. No tier is hand-picked. This page explains every number so you can judge how far to trust it.

Where the data comes from

Tournament results come from Limitless TCG, where community organisers run online Pokémon TCG Pocket tournaments. We use standard-format events with at least 8 players and skip events with house rules. For every player we read the deck they registered, its full 20-card list, and every match they played.

Card details, prints and pull rates come from two open card databases maintained by the community, joined card by card.

The current meta

The meta resets when a new booster set comes out. The current window started with Deluxe Pack: Mega on September 30, 2026 and covers 52 tournaments and 3,080 decklists. During the first three days of a new set we keep showing the previous meta, and the first week is marked as early data.

Win rate

A deck's win rate counts only games against other decks, with a tie as half a win. Mirror matches are left out because they are always 50% for the deck and would pull every deck toward even.

Tiers

• A deck needs at least 20 lists in the current meta to get a page and a tier.
• Small samples are pulled toward 50%: we add 50 imaginary games at an even record, so a deck that went 9-1 in one weekend cannot top the list.
• The tier score is 60% adjusted win rate and 40% play rate (on a log scale, so one dominant deck does not flatten the rest).
• The top 10% of ranked decks are S, the next 20% A, the next 30% B and the rest C.

Matchups and counters

A matchup is shown only when the two decks met in at least 15 games. A deck gets a counter guide when at least three of its matchups pass that bar. The "Weakness" on a deck card is its worst such matchup.

Deck lists

The list on each deck page is built from the most common number of copies of each card, in order of how many lists run it, until it reaches 20 cards. Different art versions of the same card count as one card. Core cards appear in at least 90% of lists, flex cards in at least 20%.

Which pack to open

Pull odds come from each set's published offering rates: every card of a rarity is equally likely within a slot, and rare pack variants are weighted by how often they appear. A pack's meta score adds up every card it can give you, times how often that card is played, times the chance of pulling it. Trainer promos sold in the shop, like Professor's Research, are left out because you never need a pack for them.

What this cannot tell you

Tournament players are not the whole ladder: ranked matches are not public, so a deck that is popular in ranked but rare in tournaments will look smaller here. Small samples still move; check the number of games next to every percentage.

Last updated October 15, 2026.