Ups and Downs of Pokémon Champions
It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Pokémon Sleep's new Latias event is ongoing and we give a recap of how we feel about this event. Pokémon Champions is here and we talk about VP, the Battle Pass, the Yearly Membership, and recruitment from the Ranch. Champions launched with a lot of issues and bugs and a couple have already gotten fixed with an acknowledgment of another fix to come at an unknown date? The game seems very solid for those who are mostly using Pokémon HOME to send over their team.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00-Introduction
00:04:00-Pokémon Sleep
00:09:40-Pricing Pokémon Champions
00:18:55-The Ranch / Recruitment
00:35:00-Known Issues w/ Game
01:10:00-Master Ranks w/ no HOME
01:33:10-Small Paywall in Champions
02:05:00-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. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the 716th episode of the Pokemon Champions podcast. I'm your host, Steve, with me is Bobby. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello. Do we want to rebrand as that? Is that the... You know, if you've only listened to this episode |
| 0:32.3 | in the last two episodes, you would think we only talk about Pokemon champions. Sure. |
| 0:36.7 | But if you listen to the episodes before that, you would think we've only talked about Pocopia. True, true. Okay. New games did come out. We're talking about the newer games. I guess that's true. I guess that's true. Okay, okay. I'll get on board with that. Yeah, well, I'm here, and I've played champions. |
| 0:56.3 | That's why we're the Pokemon Champions podcast. |
| 1:00.7 | Speaking of Pokemon Champions, Austin also here. |
| 1:04.3 | Hey, I'm not going to talk about Pokemon Champions right now. |
| 1:06.7 | Instead, I'm going to say I went to go see the Mario Galaxy movie this week. It was very, I actually, I liked it more than the first Mario movie. Okay. But I'm also a big Mario Galaxy fan. So that maybe helped with all like the the theming of the movie. But it was good though. I enjoyed it. Sounds biased, but sure. Maybe a little bit. I like the first Mario movie. It was, I don't remember anything that happened, but I was like, this was a good 90 minutes of my time. Yeah, I don't think they're like fantastic movies, but they are fun, they're fun to watch. It's a good, however long it is, you know? Yeah. I think you would probably get more value out of 90 minutes of Mara movie than 90 minutes on TikTok. Yeah, I would agree. True. You know what? I didn't get my times worth. I also recently rewatched the Keldeo movie, and by far, that's not a good one. That's the worst Pokemon movie, right? I don't think it's the worst. Not the worst, but sure. Also, Kiram was not in the wrong. |
| 2:19.1 | No, Kyrum was right. Keldio was the wrong one. Yeah, correct, yes. Kelio just goes up there and cries all the time. It's like, what did you expect, buddy? Come on. Kiram very clearly laid out the rules of the fight. And Keltio was like, no, I don't want these rules anymore. Kelly agreed to the terms and conditions, didn't read through them. |
| 2:19.1 | It's wild though that |
| 2:21.1 | Austin you say that the Keldeo movie is the worst |
| 2:23.4 | one when the power of one exists |
| 2:25.4 | was it that what was called the power one yeah was that the one |
| 2:28.4 | was the one where Pikachu talks |
| 2:29.3 | no that was a great movie |
| 2:31.7 | okay that you're talking about the |
| 2:33.9 | Lugia and Zaraora for like four and the Zaraaraara movie. No, because Sudo-Woodoo carried that movie. Sudu was the best part of that. It was good. I like that one. Oh, sure. I didn't like that one. All right. I didn't mind Pikachu talking about. Yeah, that's fine. That was fine. Yeah, that was fine. |
| 2:51.4 | All right. |
| 2:52.1 | Here's our show for you guys today. It will be a little bit Pokemon champions heavy, but a lot of people are playing champions. So that makes sense of what we're talking about. There is a new event in Pokemon Sleep, so we'll just go over that real quick. And then we'll go into champions. We'll take a break. we'll probably wrap up champions. |
| 3:07.7 | If you stick around for the bonus episode, |
| 3:10.7 | we will talk about the... quick, and then we'll go into champions. We'll take a break. We'll probably wrap up champions. |
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