Hopes for Pokémon Champions

It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

[Featuring JoeUX9] The 2026 rules are now out with some updates and changes, but it also hints that Mega Pokémon are coming back to VGC? We talk about Pokémon Champions and how it can go really well or really bad depending on how they launch it. Pokémon TCG is also getting Mega news on July 10th. Pokémon did a gameshow and $20 seems too much for a single Golden Bottle Cap in GO.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00-Introduction

00:02:40-2026 Championship Series

00:25:30-Pokémon Champions Talk

00:49:30-Mega Pokémon TCG Announcement

00:52:00-Pokémon Game Show

00:58:50-Golden Bottle Caps

01:17:20-Credits

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Hosted, edited, and produced by Steve Sarumi

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone.
0:14.6	That's a good question.
0:16.7	676 episode of the Pokemon podcast.
0:19.3	It's super effective.
0:20.2	I'm your host, Steve. With me is Bobby. Hello.
0:24.8	84. 84 Regilecki is how many it took for me to get a shiny one. That's way too many
0:32.5	Regilecki. I'm sure Scopoli is very happy with their purchase. Yeah, better be. I'm sure you made them very happy. We got a special guest today. First time on the show, Mr. Joe UX9 is here. Hey, how's we going? How are you guys doing? Thank you for having me on. I'm excited to be here. You know, be pretty fun to actually, uh, it's,
0:54.3	it's funny because like, obviously I've been on like other like VGC podcasts or whatever, but this is like the first time I think I've been on like a non, like full focus VGC podcast. So it's pretty cool. Nice. Yeah. Well, since you're here, we have to be focused a little bit more on VGC because we want your
0:51.2	yeah yeah
0:52.4	yeah
0:53.3	yeah
0:53.3	but yeah here's
0:56.1	here's
1:14.4	here's the plan for the show uh Joe is going to be future world champion uh if not this year maybe
1:19.8	next year but probably this year right we're we're hoping so right i mean i wouldn't oppose you know
1:25.2	it'd be great you'd be very okay with that.
1:34.5	So our plan for today's show is there's a brand new rule set for the 2026 championship series that went out.
1:36.1	I would say a lot of drama, not drama.
1:39.7	People had a lot of opinions when they changed it from 2024 to 2025.
1:44.0	And now that that year, we have one more tournament left, which is Worlds.
1:48.3	In doing so, in announcing the 2026 rule set, they also teased mega Pokemon in their little trailer.
1:55.8	So after we talk about the rules, we're going to talk about that, which would also lead into just like Joe's thoughts on Pokemon champions. That's not out yet, and that's probably going to impact competitive
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