Pokémon Champions targets newbies to competitive Pokémon
AV Club • • technology
Key Points:
- Pokémon Champions, a free-to-play battle simulator released last week, faced immediate criticism for bugs and questionable design choices.
- The game includes only about 190 Pokémon out of over 1,000, limiting options for competitive players, and lacks many key items and moves essential for official competition.
- Fans of the Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC) were disappointed as many of their trained Pokémon are unusable in the new competitive format.
- Unlike previous Pokémon Stadium games, Champions focuses solely on online battles with no single-player mode or mini-games, offering only doubles and a limited singles variant.
- Average fans were frustrated that the game did not deliver a new Pokémon Stadium experience, missing the open-ended RPG elements and more traditional battle formats.
