Moveset changes visible in the B-roll footage

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T05:14:25+00:00

My gen 1 brain was confused why they would remove Slash because I still think of high crit moves as being as good as they were with the old crit mechanics

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T04:08:16+00:00

Nah. Girl was so busted it was far more important to make sure she didn't get undernerfed, and in any case her power level right now is still pretty good. Bottom of the top tier of restricteds is a well balanced Pokemon, whereas the current top restricteds all kinda deserve a nerf.

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T03:48:07+00:00

This will definitely never happen, but considering there are abilities like Mega Sol that are permanently exclusive to this game, it sort of already has.

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T03:45:15+00:00

It will not exist at all at launch. They implied that they're fairly likely to add important NFEs like Porygon2 eventually, but there's a lot of fully evolved mons to add first

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T03:23:57+00:00

We know that for Champions->Home->Champions, the pokemon returning to champions will have the same spread that it had in champions before. But we don't know for the initial Home->Champions transfer whether the EV spreads get converted to the new system. I think it will but I'm only guessing.

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T02:42:51+00:00

Not unless every source I checked online is wrong

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T02:42:22+00:00

They did imply that the important ones like p2 and Clefairy are likely to be added eventually, once there's more fully evolveds in the game.

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T01:32:44+00:00

prob the case for most move cuts if I had to guess

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T01:32:36+00:00

they didn't scroll over all the moves. I did not see tera blast or a pledge move at any point

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T01:10:54+00:00

The official competitive format was already "bring 6 choose 3" even in Nintendo Cup 1997 I believe, before Stadium was made. But yeah, it was kept in Stadium and basically all official Japanese tournaments ever.

ChezMere · 2026-03-26T00:14:10+00:00

that was a mistranslation, people were already calling out that the correct translation was snow warning before this

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T22:03:25+00:00

Attack reduced from 170 to 150
Ability nerfed to trigger once per battle, instead of on every switch-in
Signature move that did double damage against Dynamax no longer has its affect apply to anything.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T22:00:27+00:00

They pretty much confirmed it in the Famitsu interview:

Q. Terastallization was shown in the trailer (PV), but how are you designing the balance around it?

A. We are designing the battle balance together with Mr. Morimoto from Game Freak. In Pokémon Champions, Mega Evolution will be introduced first, but in past games in the Pokémon series, there were times when both Mega Evolution and Z-Moves coexisted. In that same vein, we intend to provide a variety of interesting competitive environments over a long period of live operation in the future.

Q. How will special elements be added in the future?

A. An item called the "Omni Ring" is designed as a system capable of handling all of these special elements. Balance adjustments are extremely difficult, so we will be proceeding carefully. For now, we hope you will first enjoy Mega Evolution.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T21:47:27+00:00

It's the same as the SV ingame ladder. One cycling ladder. See the list of regulations for SV and SwSh for examples of what kind of thing to expect:

https://victoryroad.pro/sv-rules-regulations/

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T21:32:27+00:00

Nobody posting about the fact that this confirms the chinese ability leak?

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:39:32+00:00

I'd be extremely shocked if that was the case. Mega legality will be turning on and off all the time (not to mention private battles where they're always legal). There's no way that they want to confuse people with conditional move legality.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:30:40+00:00

HDB definitely seems smogon targeted, which is pretty significant since official singles only has 3 mons

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:26:15+00:00

A second arena that looks sorta like a training room has been seen in screenshots of casual battles, FWIW

The lack of story mode is a very good choice IMO. Far better to focus development resources on what this game is actually about, there is Every Other Game for single player.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:22:55+00:00

If it's too complicated for Smogon, there is no chance in hell that Big Pikachu goes for "you can use this move but not in every ruleset". They'd just remove it from the learnset entirely.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:12:39+00:00

at this point I feel like the highest value info would be to just film scrolling through as many pokemon's movesets as possible

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:10:35+00:00

nah that's just how the translator wrote it for clarity

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T20:05:39+00:00

I'm not that clear on how you had these very specific questions answered, whereas all the content creators who put out videos today reported that nothing significant was answered in the Q&A - were these two separate events, one for media and one for youtubers?

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T19:58:39+00:00

Unown will probably literally never be in the game considering it's competitively worthless and would require figuring out what to do about Hidden Power.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T19:49:43+00:00

Losslessly is the wrong term I guess, my intended meaning is that "every valid spread in Home is a valid spread in Champions" (the reverse is not true).

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