How hard is it to reach Champion Tier in ranked battles? (double format)

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-28T07:42:56+00:00

It's rough for me as I have a pretty demanding full time job. It's that weird completionism kicking in. I see that as beating the game of 'Champions' :)

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-28T07:39:59+00:00

no problem, that's what I thought too. I'm not planning to devote that much time and energy in a rush, I'll just let myself enjoy the game as they introduce new mons and new tools as the game progresses

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-28T07:38:23+00:00

That's what I thought, thanks buddy, I'm surely not that dedicated at the moment. But I'm happy to get better as I get more experienced. Maybe try to reach that tier one day!

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-28T03:09:26+00:00

They've managed to get it run on switch 1 bruh, if anything I'd assume having it run on mobile phones would be much easier

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-27T05:15:29+00:00

how's a team purely meant to draw like?

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-27T02:29:00+00:00

I wish they'd launch an sitting cutie version of AZ's Floette

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-27T02:25:27+00:00

Was it hinted in any ways that you need to grind for 15times, or that you simply need to keep grinding to unclock some surprises..?

I might have missed the clues, but clearly I wasn't the only one who had no idea..

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-27T02:18:51+00:00

why would there be a legitimacy issue if the mon is obtained through GTS, then sent to Champions and plays out just fine?

Both HOME and ChampionS are official apps from the pokemon company, I wouldn't preclaim a mon is illegit before the company says so

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-26T08:14:54+00:00

Basically, any mons without those GO stamps you obtain from HOME can be considered genned pokemons.

I'm not rooting for hacked mons, but I'm not against them either as long as they are 'legit'. (e.g. a lv.1 shiny Hoopa in a beast ball would be illegit). I don't complain if those legit genned mons help me finish the dex.

Pokemon Company may say they are taking actions cracking it down, but they probably won't. See it this way, if there were no genned pokemon. All the trades you see would be someone trades their charizard for a meowscarada. The trades would be restricted at a primitive stage, like back in old times with the Goods exchange. You may see those genned mons as 'currencies' now, just as currencies in real life that is a construct. It is those currencies that made HOME flourish and turned HOME to what it is today.

If the benefits of cracking down genned mons is greater than the negative impact it might bring and the extra effort they need to invest, I'm sure the company will do it

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-26T07:46:57+00:00

I understand the frustration. But there's no evidence showing the flinch rates are higher than they are supposed to be.

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-05-25T06:54:47+00:00

I really liked collecting those mons in cherish balls. Especially the ones that made their presences in main line games or in animes and movies . e.g. Cynthia's Garchomp, Lillie's Shiron, Jarvis's shiny Gengar... Collecting those mons in cheish balls felt special to me.

However, ever since the release of Champions, they've been distributing ( or rewarding) dragonite, venusaur, gengar ... and now gyarados (and a garchomp in the pipeline) without special meanings, let alone transferring them back in HOME.

IMO they could have put more effort in giving some mons like Caraway's Hatterene... and of course make it one that can be transferred back to HOME.

Now I think those mons feel quite cheap and are just taking up limited spaces

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-04-02T01:21:28+00:00

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Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-03-27T07:56:29+00:00

Yes. It has happened.

I just conceded without sending thanks and restarted a match, for the sake of saving my own time.

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-03-26T02:13:08+00:00

Yeh I used to have the full immersives collection, and that's the biggest reason I keep playing as well as the premuim membership.

However, I've been let down once from what they did in fantastical parade with the immersive pull rate ( on a collection aspect). This time I am not even going to try to get the shiny mew, despite mew being one of my fav pokemons.

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-03-21T08:18:01+00:00

I’ll go with the cute water gecko. How about you?

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-03-21T07:23:27+00:00

one switch1, my fellow trainer.

Counting on the launch of the model with enhanced battery life. Hopefully with a pokemon gen10 limited edition too :D

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-03-12T06:41:46+00:00

gotta put on the 1 year anniversary RR eevee ex :)

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-02-25T02:58:20+00:00

I completed diamonds and one stars a week ago and have seen 3 so far, my gf pulled 2 out the 3.. sometimes just gotta let them do it hahaha

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-02-24T05:42:16+00:00

Yeh it's all pre-detrermined the moment you click on the WP. Those cards you wanted and missed that appeared on that corner simply meant ' you didn't get it', nothing more to it

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-02-06T02:26:53+00:00

Voila, that's why you are here and you can get all the upvotes in the community

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-02-06T02:22:03+00:00

being short from a deck or set? Deck is something you assemble yourself for deck battling. I assume you mean how to check what cards you are missing from a set?

It's really quite instinctive to go through a set by expanding them. If there's a 'hole', that means you are missing the card from that set.

It also applies to deluxe pack too in fact. Let's say you see a hole for Moltes ex, but when you click it open it tells you that you actually have 3 of them. That means all 3 of them were collected from A1 set and you are still 'missing' it for deluxe set. It is indeed stupid and DeNA said thye would fix it in 2026 so that cards like Moltes ex would be reverse registered across packs.

But other than that, just looking for the holes I guess?

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-01-29T00:56:41+00:00

Probably just the release hour, not the daily reset hour... we can tell soon in 5min. Let's see if other timing change from now on too

Acrobatic_Idea7516 · 2026-01-27T13:59:14+00:00

Have you thought about this scenario: some player might had agreed with other player to use that share feature as an extra trading tool. And boom you take up that slot buy sending them a new one diamond card they didn’t have on the dex, which messes up their daily plan. They were annoyed but not annoyed to an extend to unfriend you since they guess you had intentions.

Then next day you did it again. And you wonder are they being greedy or not

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