{"id":26792,"date":"2026-05-11T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26792"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:50:10","slug":"pokemon-champions-switch-1-2-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/pokemon-champions-switch-1-2-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Champions (Switch 1 &#038; 2, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/pokechamp_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_BOX-150x77.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_BOX-150x77.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_BOX.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s a new Pok\u00e9mon game out that is probably this generation\u2019s iteration of Pok\u00e9mon Stadium or Colisseum.\u00a0 Although seeing your Pok\u00e9mon battle in 3D isn\u2019t as big of a deal anymore, and neither is the ability to battle online.\u00a0 So I guess this one just consolidates everything and lets you battle the Pok\u00e9mon you\u2019ve trained from all sorts of different games.\u00a0 At any rate, it\u2019s free-to-play so let\u2019s take a look at it.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch 1 &amp; 2, and later mobile devices, but reviewed on Switch 2 here.<\/p>\n<p>I think the main idea here is to use your Pok\u00e9mon that you\u2019ve stored in Pok\u00e9mon Home, another free-to-play app.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t have that because I don\u2019t really play any of the mainline Pok\u00e9mon games anymore, just the spin offs.\u00a0 I guess I could use my Pok\u00e9mon from Legends ZA, but eh, I dunno.\u00a0 Just didn\u2019t feel like it.\u00a0 So what can you do if you don\u2019t use Home?\u00a0 Well you can visit the in-game Pok\u00e9mon ranch and rent out Pok\u00e9mon for 7 days or pay VP to buy them.\u00a0 You earn VP by winning battles.\u00a0 You can also spend VP to customize your trainer and other things.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of ways to battle online here.\u00a0 You can do ranked, casual, or private battles.\u00a0 There\u2019s also tons of tutorials, mission checklists with rewards, and special events.\u00a0 Unfortunately, as a free-to-play game, it sure does take a lot of VP to buy anything.\u00a0 Of course they want you to do the in-game purchases.\u00a0 Plus I just lost interest after a few days.\u00a0 I\u2019m kind of tired of the standard turn based battles.\u00a0 But if you REALLY like Pok\u00e9mon games and have the Pok\u00e9mon Home app, you might like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/pokechamp_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/POKECHAMP_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Champions is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Pok\u00e9mon use cartoony physical and elemental attacks and defeated ones just fall over.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new Pok\u00e9mon game out that is probably this generation\u2019s iteration of Pok\u00e9mon Stadium or Colisseum.\u00a0 Although seeing your Pok\u00e9mon battle in 3D isn\u2019t as big of a deal anymore, and neither is the ability to battle online.\u00a0 So I guess this one just consolidates everything and lets you battle the Pok\u00e9mon you\u2019ve trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26794,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions\/26794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}