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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Pokémon Champions

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Pokemon Champions is here and we have expert guests Casey DeFreitas and Kallie Plagge to get you up to speed. We get deep into the tall grass of Pokemon competitive battling, and ask the question: How do the gatcha components of Pokemon Champions affect players new and old? The tension between serving the new player and fulfilling the seasoned player runs high! Subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod⁠ and get merch at ⁠https://shop.bloodgodpod.com⁠ Also in this episode: Pokopia  Slay the Spire 2 Monster Hunter Stories 3 The funniest moment of Nadia's life Timestamps: 00:07:40 - Main Topic 01:02:40 - Random Encounters 01:03:53 - Tavern 1:26:42 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Axe of the Blood God Theme - [Lena Raine] Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Champions Music - [Pokémon Champions] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God in independent

0:13.3

RPG podcast, Victor. That's what we're calling it. We're sticking with the name. Stop

0:19.9

trying to change it while I'm gone.

0:40.4

I got reporters. I got people in the field letting me know that you're still trying to change the tagline. It's not going to work. I am your returning co-host, Eric Van Allen, joined by one of the heads of the Hydra. Nadia, Nadia Oxford, how are you doing? Well, while you're kind of telling off Victor there, I'm just thinking of myself, well,

0:44.5

I should have an opinion, but all I could think of for some reason, we had a question in the chat about fried chicken, and I was just thinking about fried chicken Pokemon and how Blesigand tastes.

0:51.7

Fried chicken Pokemon. Is this once again going to be an episode where we talk about

0:56.1

Pokemon and then just turns into like what Pokemon would you eat I mean there is all of them

1:01.3

especially Mr. Mime especially Mr. Mime we'll talk about the preparation later to help with

1:08.4

eating slash training slash battling the Pokemon we have two

1:12.4

Pokemon experts on this week Victor is taking a little break for all of the

1:16.3

heavy lift and he did over the last couple weeks and we have brought on two of

1:20.9

our good pals from the Pokemon Crystal Nuzlock that you may remember from the

1:25.6

trans Lifeline charity streams in one corner we have Casey DeFritus, how are you doing? Hi, I'm doing pretty well. Thanks for having me on. Good to have you. I'm excited to talk about Pokemon. I'm always excited about Pokemon. And in the other corner, we have Callie Plaggy, how you doing? I'm also, wow, my voice gave out.

1:44.9

That's cool.

1:45.5

I'm doing it all over again.

1:49.3

Yeah, Pax came back.

1:51.0

The Pax is still plaguing us.

1:53.3

Yes.

1:54.5

We're here to talk about Pokemon champions, the new Pokemon experience that just hit the switch and I believe it's on

2:01.8

switch and switch two is it on both switches yes okay it's it's on both switches uh we're

2:07.1

gonna have to play that game for a few years aren't we and we'll talk about the new format

2:12.8

for competitive Pokemon in general and whether it's a good Pokemon experience or not.

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