Pokémon Champions Has Now Surpassed 10 Million Downloads Worldwide

Lack of any kind of single player component really killed any potential interest I might've had in it personally. Have long thought there was a place for a modern Stadium, and clearly there is based on the success of it, but while I do think the multiplayer potential is the big reason why it was a good idea to make a thing of it it's also not an aspect I personally have any desire to engage with.

This is old news, the 10 Million downloads bonus has been around for about two weeks I’m pretty sure.

I've put around 195 hours into Champions so far and still playing. It's what I wanted from it; no frills battling, but because you're not ever playing against the CPU you actually have to play it and not coast through battles without thinking.

Old news and Quick Coupons kinda lose all meaning after the first 4-6 weeks once you're done collecting all the Pokémon that are relevant for competitive battling.

That's really my major gripe with the game at the moment: the battle pass and the currencies already are becoming pointless.
Quick Coupons can't be used on anything besides rolling the gacha ranch, VP is useless after awhile too because they refuse to add new songs and cosmetics for free players and training coupons also don't matter after awhile either.
And the battle pass doesn't give anything substantial for the paid tier that can't just be gotten from the free store section...

Seriously! When are we gonna get some other songs and not just the Trainer Battle Theme Version #3998784. And no! I'm not paying the Membership fee, that's a total ripoff for what it provides and they even have the gall to make it a yearly subscription >.<

Outside of that I really enjoy the game, it's what I wanted: just pure competitive battling ^_^

@Ryoma in the UK, if I go to buy the Membership, it gives options for monthly and yearly. Maybe it not being there for you is due to a restriction in The Netherlands? Or I suppose it could be the whole EU; we'd need people from other countries to clarify that.

I heard that most players play very "meta" setups. As total pokemon "noob" it doesn't create any interest in me knowing I would have to learn best builds/setups etc. before enjoying some "mindless" pokebattles.

Is there no ranking system? Or modes where you can just "play for fun"?

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@Lizuka I mean, since the beginning, this was marketed as a PvP experience. This was never promised to be a successor of Pokémon Stadium.reddit

@Rykdrew Skill issue.
Not every Pokémon is for everyone. And this ok.

@samurro There's a ranked mode, so you can play against the worst of the worst! The ranks reset every season (aka yesterday), so you will definitely run into top tier players passing through for at least another week or so

If you want mindless battles, I think copying the meta teams is ironically the best way to go! I just slapped together a team of meta mons and my win rate was 70% on my first day of using it. These teams are easy to use primarily because they give you a good response to most situations.

Making a team from scratch, or using your favorites despite them sucking requires a lot more effort and results in a majority of losses, but is way more fun, IMHO.

Anyway, you should try it...you have nothing to lose!

@Markatron84 Yesssss, agreed. This is already in my top 10 most played games of all time (for any system) at 100+ hours with no end in sight.

@stinkyx

Making a team from scratch, or using your favorites despite them sucking requires a lot more effort and results in a majority of losses, but is way more fun, IMHO.

This. I have a meta team that I use, but I do like experimenting with different lineups to test out strategies or see if there are any Pokémon that are not considered competitively viable that might be unsung heroes. This is how I fell in love with Toxapex; I've had that little guy fend off entire teams almost single handedly on a few occasions.