Pokemon Champions News: Where Are Single Battles? | PUCL 742

PUCL: A Pokemon Podcast

Thaddeus Asel

Switch, Community, Nintendo, Tcg, Tournaments, 3ds, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies, Games, Pokemon, Trading Card Game

4.5 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Where are the Single Battles in Pokemon Champions?This week, Thatch is joined by Seth Vilo and the Fluffiest Whimsicott to go over the recent Pokemon Champions news and what they think about all of the recent updates the game has made to competitive Pokemon. We dive into the Pokemon Champions news and discuss the VP upgrades, the costs associated with the Free to Play Game, and what it could mean for competitive Pokemon and the company as a whole. 0:00 Opening01:36 What We Have Been Up To09:15 News18:02 Pokopia Discussion1:01:41 Trivia1:24:40 Poké Opinion Mailbag QuestionWhy do you think Pokopia succeeded where other Pokémon games couldn’t? puclpodcast@gmail.com Connect with PUCL Discord: www.pucldiscord.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/puclpodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/puclpodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/puclpodcast.bsky.social Twitch: https://twitch.tv/thepuclpodcastSupport the Show! Patreon: https://patreon.com/puclpodcast#pokemon #pokopia #pokemowindsandwaves #pokemonpodcast #pokemontalk #nintendo #pokemongo #pokemontcg #pokemonlegendsza #pokemonday #gen10 #switch2 #pokemoncommunity #gamingpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	They are straight up changing the amount of powerpoints you get for moves as opposed to the mainline games.
0:08.2	Like Protect used to be top value in the video game was 16 times you could use it.
0:13.8	Now it's eight.
0:15.2	Well, that one took the biggest hit too specifically.
0:17.8	Like protect the biggest hit going from 16 to 8. A lot of them... Especially for doubles. Hey, everyone. That's here, and welcome to the Puckold podcast. I hope you're excited. We're talking Pokemon champions, just as you heard a little bit before this. And we've got a lot of opinions, and I really want to know yours. But before we get too far into it, just letting you know, this episode was recorded a little bit differently. We're trying to new editing workflow. So if you have any opinions, feedback, we're open to hearing them. But yeah, I hope you're excited, and I hope we can get on with the show. And be sure to check us out on stream this week where we'll talk Pokemon champions all day in all night and then probably get a little bit of nuzz locking into with that guys let's turn
0:57.0	long over to where we'll talk Pokemon champions all day and all night and then probably get a little bit of Nuzzlocking into.
0:55.4	With that, guys, let's turn on over to the actual episode.
1:03.8	And now coming to you live
1:06.1	from atop the Lavender Town Radio Tower.
1:08.9	It's the one, the only, Puckled podcast.
1:17.6	It's Puckold!
1:19.6	It's Puckold!
1:21.6	It's Puckold!
1:22.6	Pokemon Underground Champions League, oh yeah.
1:27.5	Puckle!
1:28.9	Puckle!
1:33.3	Welcome to an episode of the Puckle podcast.
1:39.1	I'm your host, Traynor Thatch, and I've done this three times now,
1:42.3	and I'm joined today by my wonderful co-host, Seth Vilo. It's me. Hello, everyone. And if you're watching on the video one, you can see me this week, which is kind of new and interesting. Part of the reason that we're doing this intro for a couple times. Yeah. That's okay. They don't know that. They don't know that. Ignore that. You didn't hear that.
2:01.8	Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's, it's, it's fine. It's fine. It's whatever it is. Exactly.
2:09.3	But yeah, welcome to that. Welcome to that. And then we also have the fluffiest Wimsycott.
2:15.5	Hello, everyone. I am here, definitely on video and definitely for the first time.
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