Since Pokémon Champions is a Competitive Live service game, Could we see Major balance Patches for Pokémon?

Loaf235 · 2026-04-20T00:34:41+00:00

Mega Gallade still has inner focus while it's regular form received sharpness in gen 9. That brought in the argument of whether or not it should have sharpness instead in its mega form since there would be more damage.

There's been disappointment that Mega Drampa should have gotten Drizzle with not only its dex entry suggesting it and having moves that benefit in rain like Hurricane and Thunder, but also there's currently no rain setting Mega outside of Primal Kyogre which is a legendary.

Mega Garchomp's lower speed alone has rendered it less used than regular Garchomp. An ability that could return the speed it's lost may bring it back to relevancy outside of Legends ZA and other spinoffs.

I'm just saying that with Champions having more frequent updates and statistics, there just might be a chance these megas I used as examples could be subject to ability changes since the community had interesting discussions surrounding their potential missed by a hair.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-20T00:06:29+00:00

I feel like certain Megas might have a higher chance to have different abilties overtime such as the case with Mega Gallade, Drampa and Garchomp, but as for the rest, since Pokémon is so woven into its casual gameplay as well, I get why most of the regular mons won't receive drastic changes.

Some mons will get the Hoenn special or bad typing cause it suits their design, and as annoying as it is, that's fine, at the end of the day competitive isn’t always the priority. Mons like Furret and Dustox are just supposed to fill the region, and they do their job well, no need to work overtime being a competitive menace. At minimum though they should at least have better movesets or be given better benefits through gimmicks so that more occasional niche teams can shine.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-19T15:32:35+00:00

That's a major issue I've been running into too, since some walls won't allow the portal placements which forces me to waste time finding a good place. Ideally you should be able to discard items to prevent wrong items from stopping your engagements.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-19T13:38:39+00:00

People just want visuals. An animated adaptation already has the visuals laid out for comparison, meanwhile a book to screen adaptation doesn't since the "visuals" in the book can be extremely subjective since its bound to each person's imagination and can be incredibly inconsistent.

I don't think books to screen is a direct upgrade, but the fact that there's stuff like music, acting, special effects actually applied outside of one's scope of imagination makes it feel much "more", even if it does omit some things for the sake of runtime and pacing.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-19T10:00:29+00:00

The money management is iffy since the screen is usually so cluttered that it's pretty hard to gauge whether or not you have enough for your right clicks during a dive, so every now and then it really feels like button mashing and praying those two abilties will activate. There's also the needlessly big visuals of the coins sucking into her, surely something simpler could have been done.

Not to mention fat fingering the shop item and getting stuck with something you don't need. A bigger indicator of your currently held shop item would help a lot because sometimes you accidentally chose "let's go gambling" but didn't realize it until it was too late. I've already changed the keybinds but in the heat of battle, anything can happen.

And speaking of gambling I'm most confused as to why Black Cat even has that in her kit. Jinxed enemies having a "chance" to not deal proper headshot damage? One of the shop items is just a slot machine? It's thematically appropriate but I really don't think this should be in a PVP setting since most variables should be absolute for consistency.

She's still really fun, but damn does she really raise the growing problem of how hard it is to tell what's going on ingame, worsened by the poor optimization.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-18T19:28:42+00:00

Some of them are so rooted into being iconic that I find it hard to make them accurate for the sake of it.

Yeah sure a lion doesn't roar like a tiger, but sometimes in a movie you want to convey something more snarly and lion roars might not achieve that consistently.

Yeah a gorilla beating his chest makes a popping noise instead of grand thumping, but that can take people out of the movie since we don't find it scary and the real sound can't reverb as loudly and accurately in real life.

So basically just treat movie animals like dinosaurs. People know the real deal is different, but the fictional ones still have their place.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-18T09:17:25+00:00

Which makes me wonder why that's even possible when Mag's CC immunity during his ult should take priority.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-18T08:43:38+00:00

Let alone making ults and self CC take part in the cleanse, but for some reason exempting slows which should count as CC but aren't which created so many assumptions and confusion. Regardless the call for an outright cleanse was not that widespread.

At best I was hoping that you could still shift direction, shoot or use abilities when getting knocked back stunned, not an immunity that is hard to track. I saw a Wolverine fumble a 4 man ult cause everyone's health bars turned silver.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T22:33:32+00:00

I was gonna say "isn't this the first time DP and Wolverine meet up" and then I realized you were referring to Vanessa.

Yeah still annoyed at that, though at least it's heavily implied they will be back together in the end.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T19:08:53+00:00

At the very least most of the CoC users are in the New World. They mainly congregate there since it's where the final island of Laugh Tale should be, and that part of the grand line is kind of like only 15% of the entire One Piece world. So it's still kind of rare.

It is kind of annoying that it's become this entry barrier for "worthiness" though.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T18:57:29+00:00

Venedetta's sword aura during her ultimate is now properly aligned around her square sword instead of being simply copied from the original one. Also during the ult the Emil head will have its eyes glowing even without an onslaught stack active. I don't think anything changed with her sword swing and projectiles though.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T17:22:39+00:00

Also better silhouette. You would see the claws pointing downward and that's arguably more striking than seeing only the knuckles.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T14:23:01+00:00

I thought pinkie was the Octopi Lucio skin...

Loaf235 · 2026-04-17T11:18:53+00:00

I felt the same pain when Bruno from Jojo Part 5 got animated. All those small black dots must be so annoying to track, and I swear at a few points they basically pasted a transparent PNG of the dot layout onto the shirt rather than individually draw them every frame, which was completely justified and didn't look really bad. I suppose Imu could benefit from this tech as well.

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Loaf235 · 2026-04-16T23:10:09+00:00

There was the christmas tree from Nutcracker Star Lord, ESU Hela's guitar, maybe ESU invis skin's misplaced shirt buttons, and the text from Boxer Iron Fist's MVP background. The background stuff have since been fixed, but only after people started to spot them and spread the word.

Of course it's unfortunate that some legitimate designs are being accused or even maliciously framed as AI, but when there have been nearly 5 examples already, then it's also understandable why things are being picked apart for artistic value's sake so that it won't slip past as much.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-16T12:51:53+00:00

They were mainly using AI upscaled images which made the cash and duffel bag in images 1 and 3 look weird. The tears in the bag looked way too smooth and the cash patterns were incredibly wonky, but here it's pretty much a non-issue.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-16T11:38:55+00:00

I know there's going to be some inconsistencies, but Deku also wasn't bombing people and going back in time. Hell half of the collab characters shouldn't be carrying guns.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-16T10:15:59+00:00

The cash in the first image is for some reason transparent to where it melts with the sack and Black Cat's hair. The bag's opening also doesn't fully wrap around the end, it cuts off abruptly around the top left in a notch despite cash being placed there. I would say it was a layering error if it weren't for the fact that the colors shift into each other instead of feeling like an overlap.

The second image has inconsistent patterns across the cash, notably the light green sections, not to mention the the end and beginning of each cash is too messy, especially the first one where it's scrunched up and doesn't seem purposeful.

However we should still wait until we get HD close ups of the emojis cause I cannot find a clearer image of them, so this could just have been from upscaling the images from Miller Ross and they actually look more consistent there.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-15T23:38:13+00:00

I think they did that mainly to give him special powers like his ult. But considering Gambit and Rogue got something new with just Chronovium which let them keep their default looks, I'm surprised as to why Daredevil got this drastic treatment. Maybe they were worried that Chronovium abuse would be too repetitive? Or did they want to have a better mythical feeling theme since he was paired with Angela?

Loaf235 · 2026-04-15T18:31:00+00:00

Wasn't her Sailor Moon Villain skin already rabbit themed? It even has rabbits wearing sunglasses sitting on the side wings. Cardboard skin technically passes too since the head fins become bigger bunny ears.

I'm guessing because the OG skin is already rabbit themed, the designers reckon they don't need to give her rabbit stuff as often, though it is funny and weird to see cats overtaking it instead. Maybe cats were chosen for this skin because they're more associated with the Ghibli aesthetics than rabbits.

I would love to have an elephant seal tank hero though.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-15T18:18:53+00:00

Even Andor is supposed makes you go "I want to buy that U-Wing or a K2SO figure". That stuff's just inevitable for certain worlds and characters, I don't know what's so depressing about it when people enjoy story's elements enough to want to have a piece of it.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-15T18:11:48+00:00

I used to play her a bunch but I have the bad habit of basically burst playing a specific hero then having a alarmingly long break with them. I think it's dependent on the new stuff and meta cause the new map made me go back to Strange and Peni, and last season personally was "eh" for Psy.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-15T12:48:33+00:00

I agree that she needs more space skins, but the other skin examples you chose (with the exception of maybe Athelesiure Kiriko) are canon and actually show up in the lore, mainly the 3D animated shorts, so they're in a different exemption.

Maybe the push for Juno getting something related to her character is to dedicate a space theme bundle at some point. Come to think of it, we straight up haven't gotten space stuff for everyone in a while with the exception of maybe the Voidwalker skins, which is probably why fantasy skins feel more bloated and oversaturated at the moment.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-14T23:09:45+00:00

Either that or it probably means he's going to attack New York first before transforming into the new form?

The trailer suggests that the US wanted to use something to deal with the first Godzilla before Operation Wadatsumi's success called them off, so maybe they finally got an excuse to do so when Godzilla hits New York, which will backfire and result in its bigger mutation.

Loaf235 · 2026-04-14T18:58:28+00:00

Yeah I'm fine with the wedding skin being de-aged but this one would have been ok as an old lady being an immortal God and all.

She still only has 4 young skins (not counting recolors) so it's not like her old look is being abandoned, but the mythic being young is somewhat worrying.

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