The Pokémon Company has just unveiled the first images of a brand new Pokémon game based on clashes. The latter could well bury another longtime project.
It was on the occasion of the Pokémon day that the famous license multiplied the announcements concerning the future of monsters to catch and collect. Among these, the upcoming arrival of a brand new game that surprised fans of the saga: Pokémon Champions. This new title, which does not yet have an official date, may however bury another project appreciated for years by lovers of Pokémon fighting.
Pokémon Champions: The game for fans of Pokémon fighting
Although its motto is always “catch them all!”, The Pokémon franchise is full of multiple activities such as the fighting of trainers, present from the very first license games. The new game Pokémon Champions Accents on these clashes and will offer players to compete in Pokémon fights with, which looks like meetings in two Pokémons against two Pokémons.
Different mechanics are already presented in the trailer for Pokémon Champions. It is notably possible to observe teracristallization and mega-evolutions.
Little information is already available on Pokémon Champions. Developed by a new entity called “The Pokémon Workds”, the title is still very mysterious. The announcement talks about a “first overview” and the title does not have an official date outside a “developing”. It is however already confirmed that players will be able to take advantage of their Pokémon present on the application Home Pokémon And that the game will be available on both Nintendo Switch and Smartphone consoles.
Pokémon that can be transferred can come from Pokémon Go, Pokémon Scarlet/Violet And “other opus in the series” without further details.
A new game to end a longtime project?
Fans of the Pokémon community who love the fighting did not wait for the announcement of Pokémon Champions To compete online and test strategies. For a little over ten years, many players have organized competitions on an unofficial project of online strategic fights called Pokémon Showdown.
The arrival of Pokémon Champions could therefore be the official response of the license to put an end to this project and settle as an official game for fans of Pokémon fighting. It remains to be seen how the company The Pokémon Company could monetize this new title (paid game for purchase, addition of micro-transactions …).