Everything We Know about Pokémon Champions

About this episode

The episode discusses the release and pricing details of Pokémon Champions, along with excitement and concerns about the game.

After playing Pokémon Champions, we now know the release date and some of the pricing that may come on launch day. This entire episode is dedicated to our excitement and concerns around Pokémon Champions. Marketing of this game has seemed to pick up with the focus being for people who have never really battled before. TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00-Introduction 00:03:55-Behind the scenes at TPCi 00:14:40-Basics of VP 00:23:45-Pokémon "Limit" from HOME 00:27:30-Phone Version of Pokémon Champions 00:36:15-How Accessible is Champions 01:02:40-The $9.99 Starter Pack 01:16:50-The Cost of Pokémon Champions 01:43:50-Future Updates to the Game 01:47:40-VGC is Failing to Grow 02:07:00-Credits LINKS 🌐  www.pkmncast.com 👾  www.twitch.tv/pkmncast 📸  www.instagram.com/pkmncast 📝  www.reddit.com/r/supereffective 🐦  www.twitter.com/pkmncast 🎥  www.youtube.com/pkmncast 📀  www.tiktok.com/@pkmncast 💰  Support on Patreon EPISODE CREDITS Hosted, edited, and produced by Steve Sarumi Theme songs and segment jingles by Nicholas Burgess  Ad music comes from Evanto Elements  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Sarumi

Topics covered

• Pokémon Champions
• game release
• game pricing
• game accessibility
• VGC growth

Keywords

• Pokémon Champions
• release date
• pricing
• game marketing
• VGC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TPCi, PKMNcast.com, Evanto Elements

Products: Pokémon Champions

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