Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Pinturault bai iya fara kakar wasa a Sölden a watan Oktoba na 2012 ba, saboda ya ji rauni a idon sawunsa yayin wasan tennis kuma dole ne ya tsaya na tsawon watanni uku. A watan Disamba, ya lashe gasar cin kofin duniya ta biyu a tseren tsere a Val-d'Isère, inda ya burge magoya bayan gida tare da kyakkyawan gudu na biyu a karkashin hasken wuta don tashi daga matsayi na shida. Ya shawo kan Felix Neureuther na Jamus da rabin rabin da kuma zakaran gasar cin kofin duniya na gaba Marcel Hirscher, wanda ya jagoranci da 0.57 seconds bayan na farko. Nasarar Pinturault ta uku ta kasance a cikin haɗin gwiwa a Wengen, Switzerland, inda ƙwarewar slalom ɗin sa ya kasance mabuɗi. Bayan sanya na 22 a cikin ɓangaren saukowa, ya gama 1.15 seconds a gaban Ivica Kostelić na Croatia. Gudun horo don ɓangaren saukowa shi ne karo na farko a kan tsalle-tsalle na tsalle-tsalle na tsawon watanni, kamar yadda ya rasa horo na saurin yanayi bayan tiyata a ƙafar hagu a watan Agusta don gyara ligaments da aka lalata yayin wasan tennis. Pinturault bai samu lambar yabo ba a gasar zakarun duniya a 2013
, amma yana da hudu top-shida gama. Mako guda bayan haka ya yi nasara a gasar cin kofin duniya karo na hudu, na farko a cikin babban slalom, a Garmisch, Jamus. Na biyu bayan gudu na farko, jimlar lokacin Pinturault ya kasance sakan 0.60 a gaban Hirscher na biyu. A ranar 15 ga Maris, an karrama shi a matsayin 2013 Longines Rising Star, a matsayin mafi kyawun matashi mai tsere (ƙasa da 23) na kakar.