Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr · 10 segments
It's finally here! Worlds is this weekend, and Carter and Carl go over the top archetypes in the meta, talk about what they think will win worlds, and touch on some future changes coming to Champions!…
Carl WilkinHost
Carter NobleHost
Uh, so today we're gonna talk about archetypes, um, what we think could win Worlds, where we rank them on this ladder, go over each of what they're doing specifically.

There's technically more meta teams than this, but I figured these 11 will highlight the actual format quite well, pretty much cover everything and anything that could possibly win Worlds.

Uh, what's funny is I actually had somebody ask me in a comment on a video this week, "What's Big Six?" And I got to explain the actual history behind the original Big Six team, which was about 10 years ago, being Primal Groudon, uh, Xerneas, uh, Talonflame, Smeargle, Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Salamence, I believe is the correct six for this one.

And I kinda like got to compare like this mon is equivalent to this mon, that mon's equivalent to that mon, and it just ends up being this like this really well-rounded, really strong team, which we've seen throughout all of M dash A and M dash B, and we will probably continue to see in M dash C. I'm unfortunate to tell you that I don't think that's gonna change anything [laughs].

Unless there's some kind of nerf to Charizard Y making it pretty completely unplayable, I would expect Big Six to still be a thing moving into M dash C.

Uh, so today we're gonna talk about archetypes, um, what we think could win Worlds, where we rank them on this ladder, go over each of what they're doing specifically.

There's technically more meta teams than this, but I figured these 11 will highlight the actual format quite well, pretty much cover everything and anything that could possibly win Worlds.

Uh, what's funny is I actually had somebody ask me in a comment on a video this week, "What's Big Six?" And I got to explain the actual history behind the original Big Six team, which was about 10 years ago, being Primal Groudon, uh, Xerneas, uh, Talonflame, Smeargle, Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Salamence, I believe is the correct six for this one.

And I kinda like got to compare like this mon is equivalent to this mon, that mon's equivalent to that mon, and it just ends up being this like this really well-rounded, really strong team, which we've seen throughout all of M dash A and M dash B, and we will probably continue to see in M dash C. I'm unfortunate to tell you that I don't think that's gonna change anything [laughs].

Unless there's some kind of nerf to Charizard Y making it pretty completely unplayable, I would expect Big Six to still be a thing moving into M dash C.
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