These are ALL the players that have earned an invite to the 🗺️ 2026 World Championships in the Masters division of Pokémon VGC! 🥳 #PokemonWorlds
👥 Which is your favourite to win it all this weekend?
📖 All info about 2026 Worlds invites: https://t.co/cXWYWawkSn
Game Freak have done a development interview with Famitsu, this time about Pokemon Champions
New information
- Pokemon Champions was originally planned to release for summer break (Late July in Japan) but was pushed a month early so new players could have as much time as possible to join in with Switch users
- 8 days after the release, Pokemon Champions surpassed 10 million downloads
- Brazil is the region with the most downloads after Korea, US, and Japan
- June’s Monthly Challenge exceeded 1.3 million participants
- South America and South Asian countries have risen to the Top 10 in player statistics for the first time
- Multiple UI updates including for the Box are in the works
- Pokemon for Regulation M-A and M-B were mostly chosen for their ease of use with entry level niches for new players
- Items are added based on an evaluation of the current state of the metagame, in short, to shift
- Regulation M-A was always planned to have a big focus on Weather, because Hoshino thinks Weather wars make battles way more fun
- Regulation M-C will also focus on Mega Evolution
- The staff are currently evaluating which of the first Legendary Pokemon will be added in Champions in a future season
- Champions has a special “Tournament Mode” to handle team sheets for events
- The decision to increase the tournament participants of PJCS from 64 to 128 was directly made by Hoshino to increase the overall competition
- Viewership for Pokemon Champions tournaments have increased by 150% compared to previous games
- Special themed tournaments are set to debut in the future
- Announcements are being planned for Champions post-Worlds
- Hoshino uses a team exclusively made up of Pokemon on the **Pokken Tournament** roster
Link below👇🏽
Almost 2100. Been a while since I laddered in-game, but Champions on the phone is too addicting. Got me looking forward to an hour on the StairMaster 🤣🤣
Last weekend I became the FIRST Champion of Pokémon Champions by winning the 2026 Indianapolis Regional! It truly was an unforgettable experience- having to face the best of the best in order to claim the top spot! Shoutouts to my family and @sohaibmufti and @Ink_VG.
Always told him that he is goated but doesn’t go to enough events, truly so happy to see him kill it at Indy 🥹🥹 one of my best friends and nicest person you will ever meet.
Finished 17th at LA started SV by bubbling and ending it the same hopefully champs is different 😭shoutout to @MarK_bscrew who helped me with the matchups he is the goat 🐐 and to all my friends who supported me thank you ❤️❤️