The Wildest Pokémon Champions Interview to Date
It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast
PKMNcast.com
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Season 2 of Pokémon Champions is here and it's... the same! We talk about the new Battle Pass and our wishes for it to be better. We spend some time this episode talking about why Z-A and Arceus doesn't sell as well as games like Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet. Most of the episodes goes in and out of Hoshino's answers about Pokémon Champions with some good and bad news for the game.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00-Introduction
00:01:50-Season 2 Battle Pass for Champions
00:27:30-Turn Based Matters to Players
00:57:50-No Clothes & No Replays for Champions
01:38:35-Credits
LINKS
📝 www.reddit.com/r/supereffective
EPISODE CREDITS
Hosted, edited, and produced by Steve Sarumi
Theme songs and segment jingles by Nicholas Burgess
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone. Welcome to the 722nd episode of the Pokemon podcast. It's super effective. Ignore that we're wearing the same |
| 0:24.2 | clothes as last week. I'm your host, Steve. With me is Bobby. Hello. I've been playing so much |
| 0:31.1 | Forza Horizon 6 this week. Such a good game. Oh, man. Amazing. |
| 0:40.6 | Austin also here. |
| 0:44.0 | And honestly, the Survivor finale. |
| 0:45.2 | Oh, no. |
| 0:46.4 | Wait, will it be out? |
| 0:48.9 | The Survivor finale was great, honestly. |
| 0:54.1 | And the Man the Myth and Legend, R-I-Z-G-O-D, pulled it out and won. |
| 0:57.2 | It was crazy that... It was probably Aubrey. |
| 0:59.2 | It was crazy that Mr. Beast came back for the finale. |
| 1:01.6 | Flipped another coin. |
| 1:02.8 | Flipped another coin. |
| 1:04.8 | You could have made it $5 million instead of two, Mr. Beast. |
| 1:07.6 | Let's not. |
| 1:08.7 | Okay. |
| 1:09.2 | In this episode, we have some Pokemon champions news, and we have some book news. |
| 1:18.8 | There's a Japanese book and a English book. We were secretly going to talk about last week, |
| 1:23.7 | but then neither of these books are coming out next week. So we pushed it a week. |
| 1:28.8 | So here we are with books. And then we have a little bit of small news, but the champions might |
| 1:34.0 | take a lot. There's, I don't know why they keep giving this man interviews. I'm very, |
| 1:40.5 | he's got answers. Does he? They're not good, great answers, but he's got answers. |
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