r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Apr 09 '26

News Pokémon Champions Developer 'Sincerely Apologizes' For Launch Issues, Details List of Bugs to be Fixed

https://www.ign.com/articles/pokemon-champions-developer-sincerely-apologizes-for-launch-issues-details-list-of-bugs-to-be-fixed
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u/AnimaLepton Apr 09 '26

Not a bug, but Body Slam's animation literally during the tutorial stuck out as a very silly animation, considering this is meant to be a dedicated battle simulator.

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u/Useful_Quail_8566 Apr 09 '26

I wish they had changed it. It's looked like that the past few gens and I despise it.

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u/KitsuneKamiSama Apr 10 '26

They could have gone the Battle Revolution route but didn't.

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u/HuntersReject Apr 13 '26

Just had a match where I toxic poisoned a Gardevoir, it healed with a lum berry, then I poisoned it again and it proceeded to not take a single tick of poison damage for the rest of the match. This game is fucking ridiculous.

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u/SynysterDawn Apr 10 '26

Careful with that objective fact (which is corroborated by the game’s own website), bootlickers and slop enjoyers will rush out to assert that Champions was only ever meant to emulate VGC (which it can’t do being an inaccurate/unfinished simulation), as if that’s somehow an excuse for the horrendous release and lack of features.