The Pokémon Firm has confirmed that the upcoming online game Pokémon Champions shall be used for the Pokémon Video Recreation Championships at Worlds 2026.
Introduced throughout the Pokémon World Championships 2025 in Anaheim, California, 2026 will see Pokémon Champions exchange Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
Pokémon Champions at present doesn’t have a agency launch date past a 2026 window. Nonetheless, because of the qualification course of for the Pokémon World Championships, the sport will probably debut early subsequent yr.
The sport is free-to-start in response to The Pokémon Firm. Nonetheless, a paid model of the sport may also be out there.
The paid model of the sport shall be out there on Nintendo Swap 2 and Nintendo Swap. The free model shall be out there on each Swap consoles and cellular units.
Mega Advanced Pokémon shall be out there at launch, together with the not too long ago introduced Mega Dragonite.
When Pokémon Champions was introduced earlier this yr, TPC mentioned gamers will be capable to switch their Pokémon from Pokémon House.
Whereas a whole record of suitable video games wasn’t introduced, each console video games akin to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and cellular video games like Pokémon House had been referenced, suggesting the overwhelming majority of at present out there Pokémon shall be usable within the sport.
The Pokémon World Championships 2026 will happen from Friday, August 28, to Sunday, August 30.
