The 2026 Victory Road June Challenge #2 was a grassroots Pokémon Champions tournament that featured 174 players battling for first place. Louis Markl ultimately won first place alongside Mega Floette. The event was organised by Victory Road—more information regarding current and future events can be found on their official website.
This was one of the first major grassroots tournament to use the Regulation Set M-B ruleset, restricting teams to the 76 Mega Evolutions and 208 Pokémon species currently available in Pokémon Champions. You can see all trainers that made it to Day 2 of the tournament below, and tapping on a team will show you each Pokémon's ability, held item, moves, and stat alignment where possible. Any team or replica code shown below can be used in Pokémon Champions' online and offline events while Regulation Set M-B runs from 17 June to 2 September 2026.
Results
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# | Trainer | Pokémon | |
Team | Replica Code | ||
1st | Louis Markl | | ✕ |
2nd | Giovanni Piscitelli | | ✕ |
Top 4 | Jeongso Lee | | R1037 TX51R |
Shai Rabà | | ✕ | |
Top 8 | Hiroto Hayasaki | | EUDBS DQL02 |
Nils von Lengerke | | ✕ | |
Luca Gesualdo | | ✕ | |
Yuya Hashiba | | ✕ | |
Day 2
Top 16 | Mattia Cognetta | | ✕ |
Tomás Orellana | | ✕ | |
Kiran Singh | | ✕ | |
Théotime Massaut | | ✕ | |
Goshi Kawamura | | ✕ | |
Giovanni Costa | | ✕ | |
Juha Yi | | ✕ | |
Xi Xiangyu | | ✕ | |
Top 23 | Kazuki Kobayashi | | 9JRT0 QC3ER |
Gabriele De Leo | | ✕ | |
Jack Baker | | ✕ | |
Marcos de Flora | | ✕ | |
Chris Federico | | ✕ | |
Shen Lan | | ✕ | |
Li Yu-Chi | | ✕ |
Usage Stats
Despite all the new tools for rain teams, it seems this composition is yet to have as much dominance over the format as other team archetypes, such as the classic sun and Mega Floette teams from the previous format. Sinistcha, Pelipper, Grimmsnarl, Archaludon, and Swampert all see noticeable drops in usage between Day 1 and Day 2 of the event, all of which being the most common Pokémon on rain teams, as seen in Jeongso Lee's Top 4 team seen above.# | Pokémon | Day 1 | Day 2 | |
#1 | | Garchomp | 42.5% | 52% ▲ |
#2 | | Basculegion (Male) | 37.4% | 52% ▲ |
#3 | | Whimsicott | 33.3% | 43% ▲ |
#4 | | Sinistcha | 32.2% | 26% ▼ |
#5 | | Incineroar | 29.9% | 43% ▲ |
#6 | | Charizard | 29.9% | 43% ▲ |
#7 | | Kingambit | 27.6% | 43% ▲ |
#8 | | Floette (Eternal) | 25.9% | 43% ▲ |
#9 | | Pelipper | 24.7% | 17% ▼ |
#10 | | Grimmsnarl | 21.3% | 17% ▼ |
#11 | | Archaludon | 20.1% | 17% ▼ |
#12 | | Swampert | 20.1% | 17% ▼ |
#13 | | Staraptor | 19.5% | 17% ▼ |
#14 | | Delphox | 8.0% | 17% ▲ |
Mega Evolutions
Despite its teammates seeing major losses throughout the tournament, Mega Venusaur sees a bit of success as a strong choice for rain teams, taking neutral damage from Fire- and Ice-type attacks from powerful Pokémon like Mega Charizard Y and Mega Froslass thanks to its ability Thick Fat, and resisting Fairy-type attacks from Mega Floette with its secondary Poison typing. Shen Lan's team showcases this at 22nd place, highlighting its strength alongside Mega Swampert and other rain Pokémon.With the reintroduction of Mega Mawile, we're also beginning to see teams with Trick Room modes picking up more usage and more success compared to the previous format, seeing strong placements in Top 8, Top 16, and Top 23.
# | Pokémon | Day 1 | Day 2 | |
#1 | | Mega Charizard Y | 29.3% | 43% ▲ |
#2 | | Mega Floette | 25.3% | 39% ▲ |
#3 | | Mega Swampert | 20.1% | 17% ▼ |
#4 | | Mega Staraptor | 19.0% | 17% ▼ |
#5 | | Mega Metagross | 13.8% | 9% ▼ |
#6 | | Mega Delphox | 8.0% | 17% ▲ |
#7 | | Mega Mawile | 6.9% | 13% ▲ |
#8 | | Mega Aerodactyl | 6.9% | 13% ▲ |
#9 | | Mega Raichu Y | 6.3% | 0% ▼ |
#10 | | Mega Venusaur | 5.7% | 9% ▲ |
