Might be coming from TPC wanting to wrap up Horizons way early before Gen 10 rolls over to overcompensate for Journeys' failure to wrap up in time before SV's release?

Champions is created to decouple the VGC scene from the mainline games. Future VGC events in Gen 10 will not be held on the Gen 10 games.

Castlevania and Pokemon, sounds like an awesome crossover.

In other words, Ash killed Dracula.

Made matters worse that the whole Gym Leaders (and Elite Four) getting Megas thing was supposed to be reserved for a "Z version" back then, which never came.

Congrats on the 1.7k!

Champions also decouples the competitive scene from Nintendo's business model, resulting in a much lower economical barrier of entry for newcomers as well as no longer forcing existing players to cough up $60+$30 just to continue in the competitive scene.

Champions, a Stadium-like for Switch and smartphones, being made to "Nintendo-proof" the VGC from the Switch 2 business model confirms that even TPC thought Nintendo's $60/70 price tag for Pokemon games is too much.

There was a precedent in SM for how it handled the Mega Stones for those not in the SM Dex, participation trophies for ranked events first, then limited time serial code distributions afterwards

Considering that the first attempt was a possessed tablet that ends up GenAI-ing about how Mega Evolution is a really, really bad thing...

Not even Legends Arceus is safe

They never come across Yakuza and Assassin's Creed before, it seems.

Thanks for hosting the artshare!

Got the full art Gardevoir through wonder pick as well. High five!