Pokémon Day 2026 - Pokemon Winds and Waves coming 2027! Champions April 2026

[Pikachu315111]

Let's advance to Hoenn:

* We may be far from Galar but both Zigzagoon families keeps rocking on with a unique "3" pattern based on their body markings!

* They tried with the Wurmple family. Wurmple, Silcoon, and Cascoon are a solid turquoise green for their Bug-type, but Beautifly and Dustox add a twist by making it a gradient based on their secondary Type: turquoise/sky blue for Beautifly and turquoise/lavender for Dustox. It's an attempt without doing a full unique pattern.

* Um, someone may want to send out help for that "3" soon...

* Spotted a spotty Spinda spinning spot:

* Okay at this point as we sure Zangoose & Seviper are still enemies? Zangoose comes with a Seviper scale while Seviper has a hickey scar made by Zangoose. Jokes aside, while neat they have unique logos, I'm confused why Zangoose has a Seviper scale instead of what you would think a scar from Seviper's tail blade or fangs would look like.

* Like Espeon & Umbreon, Lunatone & Solrock got a night and day logo, though less complicated. Lunatone is a purple/orange gradient looking like a moon put at dusk while Solrock is a bright sun in a sky blue/yellow gradient sky.

* Now this is surprising. Feebas starts with a faded blue gradient, only for Miltoic to surprise with a multicolor lustrous gradient to remind you whose the Pokemon the Pokedex describes as the most beautiful. The reason its surprising is because the Feebas family are counterparts to the Magikarp family, yet both Magikarp and Gyarados were a solid light blue. I thought about mentioning, but thinking about it the only thing I'd suggest would making Magikarp's orange and we've established for the most part families are going to have a single color or gradient for each member. Except when that's not the case like here; go figure.

* Castform may not have a logo for each of its forms, but that's not going to stop it from having a gradient making it look like its enjoying a nice sunny day.

* In a way, the Legendary Giants logo follows in their footsteps of a simple design with a small intricate detail. All the Giants, including Regigigas, have their color match their Type sometimes with a slight gradient: 'Rock is orange, 'Ice is blue, 'Steel is metallic gray, 'Gigas is light gray, 'Eleki is yellow, and 'Drago is reddish. But, much like the detail added onto their elemental body, their "braille face" is included as a way to make them stand out just a bit more.

(You kind of need to be zoomed in to see them so I'm just including Regigigas, but the others are there I assure you (or better yet check it out yourself))

* Eon Duo have a red/blue gradient which swaps around, expected but nice to see.

* Upon seeing what they did with The Super Ancient Pokemon, it dawned on me what they were doing. Not just with the rest of the Mascot Legendaries, but why the Kanto Starters colors were solid while all other Starters were a gradient. All Version Mascot Pokemon have their "3" in the style of their boxart background! A very fun idea and nice way to callback to the older gen games without being so direct. So for the Super Ancient Pokemon their "3" is like a solid color gem of their respective color with a bright white glare spot in the corner. Priceless.

* Both Jirachi and Deoxys brings to mind "space", but in different ways. While Jirachi has the metallic "sheen" like most other Steel-types, oddly its color is purple. If you were to take a step back, to me in addition to being a metallic sheen, I could maybe see the pattern resembling a tail of a comet like the one Jirachi wakes up to. Similarly, the dark blue/pink gradient of Deoxys is reminiscent of what the outer atmosphere looks like; you know, like where you battled Deoxys in ORAS.

Sorry to cut this short, but I do have some other things to do that this has been distracting me from. More tomorrow, hopefully I'll get through all of these before the 27th. But before I leave:

Hoenn Missed Opportunities:
* Ralts family's color is a solid light pink, which is fine for the initial three being Psychic/Fairy, but I think at least Gallade deserved a gradient which added a red, orange or brown to represent its Fighting-type.
* Surskit family is a solid light blue, but I feel they could have made Surskit a deeper blue to represent its connection to water, and then Masquerain having the lighter blue representing how its now a bug of the skies.
* Volbeat and Illumise have a slight difference in their gradient; Illumise has a little more turquoise green. But, when the Pokemon just before you are Plusle & Minun, both them and the firefly Pokemon meant to showcase Double Battles, who had a much more notable differences in their colors, if feels a lot more disappointing. You couldn't even make Volbeat a turquoise/red and Illumise a turquoise/blue gradient.
* After seeing Milotic and Castform, it only makes Kecleon look even blander! It's Kecleon, you couldn't think of a color gimmick for the Pokemon with the Ability Color Change! Not even a red zigzag stripe somewhere on the "3".
* I feel Luvdisc should have been pink.

 

[Esserise]

* Jokes aside, while neat they have unique logos, I'm confused why Zangoose has a Seviper scale instead of what you would think a scar from Seviper's tail blade or fangs would look like.

On Seviper’s logo, that’s just part of Zangoose’s chest fur pattern. So the scale on Zangoose’s logo is just taking part of Seviper’s body pattern in return.

 

[astroshagger]

Anyone think we're gonna get 6v6 singles in Champions?

 

[R_N]

Anyone think we're gonna get 6v6 singles in Champions?

In ranked? Definitely not, everything they show is 3v3 (singles) or 4v4 (doubles). Casual Matches probably follow the same suit you just don't get ranked.
Private matches might have the option, but we haven't see a lot of it; the screens we have still have the "pick X" format.

 

[Karxrida]

I cannot imagine 6v6 singles or even 6v6 doubles would be completely disallowed. There definitely won't be a ladder for them since they're the easiest formats to run hard stall in, but they has always been an option to play those formats casually since the very beginning. The anime always made a big deal about full 6v6 singles matches, too, so it's kind of iconic to the franchise.

 

[Ravaris]

I haven’t played on Wi-Fi for years now, but my understanding is that Scarlet and Violet were fairly open to 6v6 Singles with even the ability for some minor matchmaking as long as you don't set a password you just get paired with a random person to battle against.
I can't imagine they would go backwards on those sorts of features, but I have been disappointed before.

I'm actually more curious if BSS (3v3 singles) becomes more popular since it will be front and center in champions. I've always had a soft spot for that format since I first experienced it Stadium 1. But basically nobody plays it unless it's on the in game ladder. And theirs hardly any resources or guides, and maybe 2 YouTubers who play the format on the whole of the website.

 

[PokemonCrusader]

30 years old!

I feel ancient.

 

[Pikachu315111]

We continue as we climb to Sinnoh:

* The Shellos family get a logo for each form and, just like with the Eon Duo, they're a blue/pink top-to-bottom gradient which swaps depending on the form. Oddly though, or maybe to form contrast, West Sea (the pink one) has the gradient with the blue on top and East Sea (the blue one) has the pink on top.

* Rotom gets action lines added to its "3". Or is that supposed to be like a display glitch? Eitherway I'm glad we got at least one more Sinnoh com mon with something neat done for it before getting to the Legendaries.

* The Lake Guardians have a top-to-bottom gradient which starts (top) with purple but then goes into their respective head color. Which is a bit funny as usually they represent the Psychic-type with pink, but since Mesprit's head is pink they had to make the representation purple like in the TCG.

* As with the other version mascots, the Creation Trio's "3" resemble their boxart background. They also have a logo featuring their Origin Formes but they have the same "3" as their Altered Formes, maybe could have like reversed the pattern for the form which didn't appear on the boxart (BTW the Super Ancient Pokemon got robbed since they didn't do logos for super forms like Mega Evolution, though I think they could have made exceptions for them considering the Primals are the version mascots of ORAS).

Sinnoh Missed Opportunities:
* So Burmy and Wormadam have the same green/tan gradient but Mothim was changed to a green/sky blue gradient. Since they're willing to change the colors here think they could have done a bit more/different. While it makes sense, since Burmy is pure Bug and Wormadam gains the secondary Type, I think Burmy should have been a solid color and Wormadam's be the green/tan gradient but also have a sheen to represent all the cloaks (green for Plant, tan for Sandy, and the sheen for Trash as its a Steel-type).
* Pachirisu could have at the very least been a white/cyan gradient. "But it would have blended with the Buizel family who are next to them". Then make the Buizel family orange.
* I feel Cherrim could have had a purple/pink gradient, get a reference to its Overcast form.
* Feel they could have done something clever for Spiritomb, like have green circles dotting the "3", or base the color off the Keystone and have its pattern appear on it.
* Only neat thing for Riolu family is that Lucario got a metal sheen added to its "3".
* Despite having one of the more notable gender differences, the Hippopotas family's color is just a solid tan. A tan/black gradient I think would have been the least they could do.
* Phione & Manaphy are just a solid light blue? At the least, if the "3" isn't going to look like the Phione Egg, have it be a blue/red gradient.
* Arceus just gets a gold metallic gradient. Like, sure, it fits, but considering Arceus's Multitype and having a game names after it, feel they could have done something a little more.

Huh, they slept on Sinnoh, though I guess Sinnoh does have a smaller Dex which is filled with a lot of cross gen evolutions and Legendaries. Tell you what, let's continue by crossing that bridge over to Unova to see what they do with a bigger dex with a lot more com mons:

* Huh, Victini gets a pretty colorful logo, a gradient of its three colors: red, yellow, and blue. Going to speculate, but I'm thinking of two things: (1) If you take the pale yellow to instead be an off white, it's instead of the colors of the USA; red, white, & blue. (2) Those three colors match the three Versions the USA got (which the rest of the world's Gen I versions were based on). So if you take it that way it's a pretty American Pokemon for the first region based in the USA.

* The Blitzle family has little white thunderbolt decals, just like its stripes, on its yellow logo. And I'm surprised. We've had so many other Pokemon with body marks they could have placed somewhere on the "3", yet most are just given a simple solid or gradient color, not notable enough I guess to get even the smallest special treatment. Yet, here's the Blitzle family, which I don't really think really has any special role in the game (at least not one other Pokemon don't also have like being a Gym Leader's ace), getting that small detail treatment. Like, okay, I imagine there was probably a team of graphic designers who were given a list of Pokemon they were to do. Is the one Blitzle got the one who was putting in a little extra effort? Like they were the ones who also did the Zigzagoon family and etc..

* Throh and Sawk keep on the tradition of paired Pokemon having their logos be reverse gradients of each other (though this time the color on top matches them). Also, another red, white & blue logo.

* Zorua family, at least the Unovan one, have a more unique gradient which tries to match the red markings on them (don't know what they didn't do the same for the Hisuian variants; maybe someone else worked on them).

* Deerling family may not have a logo for each form, but they get one of the more unique logo with it being solid splits of 4 colors with curvy borders!

* Foongus family is easy to miss. At first it looks like they have a solid green, but upon closer inspection, maybe you need to compare it with another Pokemon, you'll realize they completed the Poke Ball "0" to match with how their heads resemble (rather large) Poke Balls.

* Frillish family do what the Hippopotas family should have, not only having a logo for each gender but also a gradient (for Frillish family its blue/pink) which switches to match the gender.

* So, an interesting and funny one. Instead of placing them in the sorta middle of the "0" so they look like they're coming out of the Poke Ball, the Joltik family are placed on top to make it look like they're resting on the Poke Ball.

* Love how they pulled off the boxart background for Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem's forms.

* And we close it out with Meloetta which has a few musical notes on the very top of its "3", like it's no big deal.

Unova Missed Opportunities:
* Think they should have made the Elemental Monkeys colors match the Starters considering how they're sort of treated like a pseudo Starter group.
* They gave each Basculin form a separate logo yet all of them share the same color. They're even red, white, and blue!
* Emolga having a yellow/white gradient matches fine, though I feel maybe they could have also thrown in a black too.
* Alomomola should have been pink.
* Seeing what they did with Zangoose and Seviper, I feel they could have maybe done something similar with the Karrablast and Shelmet family; something which links the two together.
* Stunfisk could have had their body markings as decals, at least for Galarian.
* Like, gold isn't out-of-place for Druddigon, but I definitely feel a red/blue to-to-bottom gradient would make more sense (maybe throw in a bit of yellow in the middle).
* Heatmor and Durant, yet two other rivals they could have done a Zangoose & Seviper with.
* Nothing is necessarily wrong with Genesect having a purple/white gradient, but I'm just putting here as its possible they could have done more or a different second gradient color like red.

Huh, so Unova didn't do too badly for itself! Going to stop here today, tomorrow we move back into smaller dexes to see what fun logos they're hiding.

 

[doipy hooves]

Kaphotics posting the Champions icon

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026851411732951182

 

[Valoo]

Kaphotics posting the Champions icon

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026851411732951182

He followed up by saying this was just for home and there’s nothing really indicating it’s a shadow drop.

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

tomorrow is the judgment day. any wacky zany last-minute predictions?

 

[Perriechu]

tomorrow is the judgment day. any wacky zany last-minute predictions?

Not necessarily crazy but PMD EoS DX pls! I’m like 95% sure it won’t happen as Pokopia will fill the gap from March - November, with Champions & Gen X promo I can’t see a suitable slot for it really.

Or a remake of a spin off. Or even just colosseum / XD on the GameCube NSO.

 

[Lontra Assassina]

They cooked pretty hard with this

 

[XYZ15]

They cooked pretty hard with this

Kind of off-topic, but I wonder why they kept Arceus for the ending even if it is to represent PLA. In the Hatsune Miku video they featured Arceus before both Koraidon and Miraidon, and then Zygarde-Mega and Floette-Mega.

I guess they just thought Arceus was the coolest mon to finish with and, to be fair, I can't argue with that!

 

[Triple777 Vinny]

beautiful

 

[CodeFour]

I hope they give us champions really soon.

I think it would be funny if they made champions like 10 pokemon anyone could use and for the first months anything you catch in FRLG can be used with home added later. Just to really piss me off any make me pay the $20

 

[Karxrida]

The point of Champions is to lower the barrier of entry into competitive. I cannot imagine they make teambuilding any more difficult than asking to engage with the ladder every once in awhile to get credits, especially when PS exists.

 

[Pikachu315111]

Going to try and rapid fire the remaining four five regions:

Kalos

* Flabebe family gets 5 layers of solid pastel colors (red, yellow, orange, blue & white; aka their form colors) with a bumpy border (to look like petals).

* Not be be outdone, Furfrou comes in with a rainbow of 9 wavy diagonal lines, each a pastel solid color for each of its Trims. Starting with the full line on the left (at the very tip of the "3" there's a small piece of I think is green which I'm disregarding as there's a more visible green line later): Pink (Heart), Orange (Diamond), Blue (La Reine), Yellow (Debutante), Purple (Matron), Green (Dandy), Dark Blue (Pharaoh), Red (Kabuki), and Light Blue (Star).

* Tyrunt family has rock decals lining the bottom of their "3". That would seem random, but...

* Amaura family has an aurora decal lining the top of their "3". I have a feeling this was something they wanted to do, but felt it would be odd if they then also didn't give something to the Tyrunt family. And if you're wonder, yeah, it's not till now they did something unique for the Fossil Pokemon, and this is the most unique thing they do. Though there is something they do for the final group of Fossil Pokemon, but they're not until Galar.

* Klekfi has a light show going on, what? A reference to its Signature Move Fairy Lock?

* Xerneas and Yveltal's boxart background looks neat being a gradient glow from the center.

* Zygarde Complete Forme has a bit more of a unique gradient than 10% and 50% (which share a simple green/black gradient), replacing the black with streaks of red and blue.

Kalos Missed Opportunities:
* Vivillon is just a green/sky blue gradient. Not sure what they could have done that wouldn't be overly intricate, but seeing what they did with the Flabebe family and Furfrou, I think it could have been given a least a few more colors.
* I feel Eternal Flower Floette should have gotten a logo.
* Could have given the Inkay family a more balanced split top-to-bottom gradient so that you could swap the colors between them.
* Oddly Hoopa only has a logo for its Confined form, not for Unbound. I'm wondering if maybe Serebii might be missing a few.

Not as bad as Sinnoh, though Kalos has a few odd logos which makes you wonder what more hadn't been done with more. Like why did Kelfki get such a unique logo yet the Pyroars, Meowstics, Aegislash, Hawlucha, Dedenne, Carbink, Diancie, Hoopa, and Volcanion got simple logos? There's missing forms like Eternal Flower Floette and Unbound Hoopa, yet Bloodmoon Ursaluna gets a logo as you'll see later on. And why start doing something special with the Fossils now? I feels they both don't want to give out too many special logos, but at the same time some of the Pokemon which gets them feel out of left field.

Alola

* Huh, Oricorio gets a logo for each of its forms. I guess, despite being able to change its form, they're unique looking enough from one another? Well, whatever the reason, they also do give them matching gradients, the top their changing primary Types.

* Mentioned it with the Hitmons so I'll mention it here, Rockruff family mostly share a color scheme though each gets a different one to match their time association: Rockruff getting a white/brown gradient matching its color & Rock-type, Lycanroc Midday is a lighter version of that, Dusk gets a more orange tinted, and Midnight goes completely dark you wouldn't think its part of the goup.

* Type: Null family gets two special logos. Well, sorta; Type: Null is just all white, which I think is the only one to do so. But Silvally certainly has a special logo with the white being filled in with squares of all sorts of colors, which both makes it look technological and that its able to change Types.

* The Island Guardians all got "3"s designed after their shell pattern:

* The Cosmog family has a little bit more going on with it. First and obviously, Solgaleo and Lunala have their boxart background recreated. But in addition to that Cosmog and Cosmeon are given a similar pattern though their is more space-y (which here means purple & pink).

* As has been posted a few times now, all Ultra Beasts (except the Cosmog family and Necrozma) have an Ultra Wormhole decal on their logo. In addition the blue background of the Ultra Wormhole is a gradient into a color which represents that individual Ultra main Beast's Type. Since this post is already going to have a lot of images, I'm just going to post one here, you can check out the others for yourself.

* Necrozma and its forms is another complex one. Obviously Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings recereate their boxart background, similar to Solgaleo's and Lunala's, respectively, though has a touch of black for Necrozma. Necrozma itself has a pretty unique logo, a nearly black one with streaks of color rays. Which only makes Ultra Necrozma pretty dissapointing as it's just a dark green/light green gradient, what? Well, I guess you could interpret Ultra Necrozma took all the light/color from the logo thus creating a dynamic contrast, but you couldn't have added anything else like maybe those light rays from normal Necrozma?

Alola Missed Opportunities:
* REALLY? You have all the Oricorio and Lycanroc forms but Wishiwashi only gets one logo for its Solo Form? And it's just a blue/white with a slight gradient, you couldn't even have like Wishiwashi decals lines up throughout the "3"?
* Minior gets two logos, though what what they did they might as well just stuck with Meteor Form. The Meteor Form logo is fine, but you couldn't have added more colors for the Core? Yeah, you only show the Red Core, but that didn't stop you having a rainbow of colors for the Deerling family, Flabebe family, and Furfrou!
* I try not to add many Pokemon to this list unless I really feel they could have done something, thus I skipped a lot of Pokemon I would have personally added just for fun. So with that said, while I can't think exactly what they could do, I feel Mimikyu couldn't had something doen with it (along with the other Pikaclones thay didn't get anything, which includes Dedenne and Togedemaru who I skipped over).
* We're just coming off of you guys overhyping Mega Zeraora, at the very least give its logo some stripes.

While I would say this time a lot of the special designs did go to Pokemon which deserve them, the choice of which formes get represented or not is starting to make no sense.

Galar

* Alcremie gets colorful swirls added to its logo, I guess representing both pastry decorations and its evolution method. Though I think a more representative design would be decals in the shape of its candies and its colors being a rainbow of what flavors it can be. But, as I'll discuss below, for the Galar Pokemon beggers can't be choosers.

* Galar Fossil Pokemon does something a little fun. Just like them being two different creatures smashed together, their colors are two solid colors lined up right next to each other. 'Zolt is orange, Draco- is blue, 'Vish is green, and Arcto- is purple. Feel 'Vish should have been blue and Draco- been green; but they feeling the colors got mixed up is fitting for the Galar Fossils.

Galar Missed Opportunities:
* I feel Wooloo was super popular enough to have something unique, like give it and its evolution a soccer ball pattern like Dubwool has.
* Toxel family, or at least the two Toxtricity, I think could have gotten something more special then split gradients.
* Falinks has a fun image, but the color could have used more imagination.
* If you're going to give Indeedee two logos at least make the gradients different.
* Hm, well this embaressing. Being version mascots, the Twin Heroes logo should match their boxart background. Except, they don't this time. They just gave them a slight gradient you'd confuse with just being a solid color. But their boxart clearly shows them on a blue/white (Sword) and red/white (Shield) gradient which leans heavily on the white with action lines in a slightly darker shade of their respective colors. Whoever did these logos dropped the ball hard!
* Oh, and since they messed up with the Twin Heroes, it means Eternatus also gets a pretty bland gradient. Actually, honestly the other Galar Legendaries (that aren't the Titans but I already discussed them) aren't any interesting either; Kubfu family, Zarude, Glastrier, Spectrier, and Calyrex.

WHAT HAPPENED HERE!? Was Alcremie the only Galar Pokemon given to the only graphic designer who actually tried to make unique logo designs?

Hisui

Nothing really to talk about here. Bloodmoon Ursaluna got its own logo and the brown part of normal Ursaluna was made more red, that's neat.

Paldea

* Like with Smeargle before, the Schroodle family doodles and graffitis it logo.

* Palafin not only goes Hero Form for its logo but has added rays of lights behind it to let you know the hero is here!

* Tatsugiri represents all its forms with three solid colors layered side-by-side.

* Like with the Ultra Beasts, the Paradox Pokemon something a little extra added to their logo. Well, two little something, depending if they're from the past or the future. For the Past Paradox Pokemon, their additional detail can be a little hard to see: their colors are more smudged. The Future Paradox Pokemon is way more noticable: a grid filter was added over it.

Paldea Missed Opportunities:
* Like with Wooloo, Lechonk reached a certain level of popularity. At the vert least, they could have given its evolutions slightly different gradients.
* I undersand only one logo for Squawkabilly, but could have added something representing its color forms like feathers.
* For the Charcadet family keep Charcadet with the red/purple gradient, but have Armarouge change to a red/yellow and Ceruledge to a blue/purple; maybe even change the direction the gradient goes.
* Okay, now they just got lazy. Like with the Twin Heroes, Koraidon and Miraidon were given simple gradients instead of them trying to replicate their boxart background. And you know what, even if you didn't want to add in all that detail, there something else you could have done: added in the strange symbols.
* Finally nothing special done for either the Treasures of Ruin nor Pecharunt & the Loyal Three.

Well, it's more than what Galar got, but it feels like near the "end" they just wanted to get things over with even though I'm sure that's not how things were done.

And that's all of them! Despite my complaints, its still awesome they gave every Pokemon a logo, some missing forms not withstanding. Everyone has a favorite Pokemon, so even if yours didn't get a special logo its still represented all the same along with everyone else's. Now, let's wait for tomorrow for what it likely going to be the announcement of the next gen: a new region, new characters, and of course NEW POKEMON!

 

[Noah3475]

tomorrow is the judgment day. any wacky zany last-minute predictions?

I do not have a wacky zany last-minute prediction, but it would be incredibly funny if we all anticipated the revelation of Generation X Pokémon games and Pokémon just... didn't bother. "Gen 10? Never heard of it. Play these mobile games. Happy 30th!" I hope this occurs, not because I care about new mainline games intrinsically, but because I want to see everyone's reactions.

 

[Termagatr]

Going to try and rapid fire the remaining four five regions:

Kalos

* Flabebe family gets 5 layers of solid pastel colors (red, yellow, orange, blue & white; aka their form colors) with a bumpy border (to look like petals).

* Not be be outdone, Furfrou comes in with a rainbow of 9 wavy diagonal lines, each a pastel solid color for each of its Trims. Starting with the full line on the left (at the very tip of the "3" there's a small piece of I think is green which I'm disregarding as there's a more visible green line later): Pink (Heart), Orange (Diamond), Blue (La Reine), Yellow (Debutante), Purple (Matron), Green (Dandy), Dark Blue (Pharaoh), Red (Kabuki), and Light Blue (Star).

* Tyrunt family has rock decals lining the bottom of their "3". That would seem random, but...

* Amaura family has an aurora decal lining the top of their "3". I have a feeling this was something they wanted to do, but felt it would be odd if they then also didn't give something to the Tyrunt family. And if you're wonder, yeah, it's not till now they did something unique for the Fossil Pokemon, and this is the most unique thing they do. Though there is something they do for the final group of Fossil Pokemon, but they're not until Galar.

* Klekfi has a light show going on, what? A reference to its Signature Move Fairy Lock?

* Xerneas and Yveltal's boxart background looks neat being a gradient glow from the center.

* Zygarde Complete Forme has a bit more of a unique gradient than 10% and 50% (which share a simple green/black gradient), replacing the black with streaks of red and blue.

Kalos Missed Opportunities:
* Vivillon is just a green/sky blue gradient. Not sure what they could have done that wouldn't be overly intricate, but seeing what they did with the Flabebe family and Furfrou, I think it could have been given a least a few more colors.
* I feel Eternal Flower Floette should have gotten a logo.
* Could have given the Inkay family a more balanced split top-to-bottom gradient so that you could swap the colors between them.
* Oddly Hoopa only has a logo for its Confined form, not for Unbound. I'm wondering if maybe Serebii might be missing a few.

Not as bad as Sinnoh, though Kalos has a few odd logos which makes you wonder what more hadn't been done with more. Like why did Kelfki get such a unique logo yet the Pyroars, Meowstics, Aegislash, Hawlucha, Dedenne, Carbink, Diancie, Hoopa, and Volcanion got simple logos? There's missing forms like Eternal Flower Floette and Unbound Hoopa, yet Bloodmoon Ursaluna gets a logo as you'll see later on. And why start doing something special with the Fossils now? I feels they both don't want to give out too many special logos, but at the same time some of the Pokemon which gets them feel out of left field.

Alola

* Huh, Oricorio gets a logo for each of its forms. I guess, despite being able to change its form, they're unique looking enough from one another? Well, whatever the reason, they also do give them matching gradients, the top their changing primary Types.

* Mentioned it with the Hitmons so I'll mention it here, Rockruff family mostly share a color scheme though each gets a different one to match their time association: Rockruff getting a white/brown gradient matching its color & Rock-type, Lycanroc Midday is a lighter version of that, Dusk gets a more orange tinted, and Midnight goes completely dark you wouldn't think its part of the goup.

* Type: Null family gets two special logos. Well, sorta; Type: Null is just all white, which I think is the only one to do so. But Silvally certainly has a special logo with the white being filled in with squares of all sorts of colors, which both makes it look technological and that its able to change Types.

* The Island Guardians all got "3"s designed after their shell pattern:

* The Cosmog family has a little bit more going on with it. First and obviously, Solgaleo and Lunala have their boxart background recreated. But in addition to that Cosmog and Cosmeon are given a similar pattern though their is more space-y (which here means purple & pink).

* As has been posted a few times now, all Ultra Beasts (except the Cosmog family and Necrozma) have an Ultra Wormhole decal on their logo. In addition the blue background of the Ultra Wormhole is a gradient into a color which represents that individual Ultra main Beast's Type. Since this post is already going to have a lot of images, I'm just going to post one here, you can check out the others for yourself.

* Necrozma and its forms is another complex one. Obviously Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings recereate their boxart background, similar to Solgaleo's and Lunala's, respectively, though has a touch of black for Necrozma. Necrozma itself has a pretty unique logo, a nearly black one with streaks of color rays. Which only makes Ultra Necrozma pretty dissapointing as it's just a dark green/light green gradient, what? Well, I guess you could interpret Ultra Necrozma took all the light/color from the logo thus creating a dynamic contrast, but you couldn't have added anything else like maybe those light rays from normal Necrozma?

Alola Missed Opportunities:
* REALLY? You have all the Oricorio and Lycanroc forms but Wishiwashi only gets one logo for its Solo Form? And it's just a blue/white with a slight gradient, you couldn't even have like Wishiwashi decals lines up throughout the "3"?
* Minior gets two logos, though what what they did they might as well just stuck with Meteor Form. The Meteor Form logo is fine, but you couldn't have added more colors for the Core? Yeah, you only show the Red Core, but that didn't stop you having a rainbow of colors for the Deerling family, Flabebe family, and Furfrou!
* I try not to add many Pokemon to this list unless I really feel they could have done something, thus I skipped a lot of Pokemon I would have personally added just for fun. So with that said, while I can't think exactly what they could do, I feel Mimikyu couldn't had something doen with it (along with the other Pikaclones thay didn't get anything, which includes Dedenne and Togedemaru who I skipped over).
* We're just coming off of you guys overhyping Mega Zeraora, at the very least give its logo some stripes.

While I would say this time a lot of the special designs did go to Pokemon which deserve them, the choice of which formes get represented or not is starting to make no sense.

Galar

* Alcremie gets colorful swirls added to its logo, I guess representing both pastry decorations and its evolution method. Though I think a more representative design would be decals in the shape of its candies and its colors being a rainbow of what flavors it can be. But, as I'll discuss below, for the Galar Pokemon beggers can't be choosers.

* Galar Fossil Pokemon does something a little fun. Just like them being two different creatures smashed together, their colors are two solid colors lined up right next to each other. 'Zolt is orange, Draco- is blue, 'Vish is green, and Arcto- is purple. Feel 'Vish should have been blue and Draco- been green; but they feeling the colors got mixed up is fitting for the Galar Fossils.

Galar Missed Opportunities:
* I feel Wooloo was super popular enough to have something unique, like give it and its evolution a soccer ball pattern like Dubwool has.
* Toxel family, or at least the two Toxtricity, I think could have gotten something more special then split gradients.
* Falinks has a fun image, but the color could have used more imagination.
* If you're going to give Indeedee two logos at least make the gradients different.
* Hm, well this embaressing. Being version mascots, the Twin Heroes logo should match their boxart background. Except, they don't this time. They just gave them a slight gradient you'd confuse with just being a solid color. But their boxart clearly shows them on a blue/white (Sword) and red/white (Shield) gradient which leans heavily on the white with action lines in a slightly darker shade of their respective colors. Whoever did these logos dropped the ball hard!
* Oh, and since they messed up with the Twin Heroes, it means Eternatus also gets a pretty bland gradient. Actually, honestly the other Galar Legendaries (that aren't the Titans but I already discussed them) aren't any interesting either; Kubfu family, Zarude, Glastrier, Spectrier, and Calyrex.

WHAT HAPPENED HERE!? Was Alcremie the only Galar Pokemon given to the only graphic designer who actually tried to make unique logo designs?

Hisui

Nothing really to talk about here. Bloodmoon Ursaluna got its own logo and the brown part of normal Ursaluna was made more red, that's neat.

Paldea

* Like with Smeargle before, the Schroodle family doodles and graffitis it logo.

* Palafin not only goes Hero Form for its logo but has added rays of lights behind it to let you know the hero is here!

* Tatsugiri represents all its forms with three solid colors layered side-by-side.

* Like with the Ultra Beasts, the Paradox Pokemon something a little extra added to their logo. Well, two little something, depending if they're from the past or the future. For the Past Paradox Pokemon, their additional detail can be a little hard to see: their colors are more smudged. The Future Paradox Pokemon is way more noticable: a grid filter was added over it.

Paldea Missed Opportunities:
* Like with Wooloo, Lechonk reached a certain level of popularity. At the vert least, they could have given its evolutions slightly different gradients.
* I undersand only one logo for Squawkabilly, but could have added something representing its color forms like feathers.
* For the Charcadet family keep Charcadet with the red/purple gradient, but have Armarouge change to a red/yellow and Ceruledge to a blue/purple; maybe even change the direction the gradient goes.
* Okay, now they just got lazy. Like with the Twin Heroes, Koraidon and Miraidon were given simple gradients instead of them trying to replicate their boxart background. And you know what, even if you didn't want to add in all that detail, there something else you could have done: added in the strange symbols.
* Finally nothing special done for either the Treasures of Ruin nor Pecharunt & the Loyal Three.

Well, it's more than what Galar got, but it feels like near the "end" they just wanted to get things over with even though I'm sure that's not how things were done.

And that's all of them! Despite my complaints, its still awesome they gave every Pokemon a logo, some missing forms not withstanding. Everyone has a favorite Pokemon, so even if yours didn't get a special logo its still represented all the same along with everyone else's. Now, let's wait for tomorrow for what it likely going to be the announcement of the next gen: a new region, new characters, and of course NEW POKEMON!

Really disappointed that the Megas didn't get special logos as well, especially a lot of the ZA Megas already feel shafted in things such as the card game and these 30th logos as well.

It would be cool however if tomorrow they drop three special logos for the new starters.

 

[R_N]

My final thought is there will be something in Gen 10 that people will immediately say is AI and that will dominate conversation for the 9 months it takes to get any other information on the game.

Could be anything. Mechanic? Something with the graphics? Probably the Pokemon. Already had a warning shot of this with the Megas (& just personally, I think people would have said the same about the galar starters on reveal) but I think it'll be more wide spread here.

 

[doipy hooves]

While I do think SV will just loop the starters forever there is one thing I can see them do: announce a rerun of the Mewtwo raid. Fits with the 30th celebration, gives another chance for people to get the mighty mark on their Mews. Just put the starter loop on pause for its duration, then start it back up again.

Last minute prediction update, the Blaziken raid went up tonight for the week so it doesn't look like another 7-star will be interrupting.

 

[R_N]

Last minute prediction update, the Blaziken raid went up tonight for the week so it doesn't look like another 7-star will be interrupting.

In my mind I was specifically thinking it would come later in the loop. Mostly because I couldn't remember when each week's raids began & ended. Was why I was just "announce a rerun" and "for its duration" vague posting.

I also think that's what happened with mewtwo the first time? It was announced for Pokemon Day but didn't actually run for another couple weeks (or even a month later?)

 

[doipy hooves]

In my mind I was specifically thinking it would come later in the loop. Mostly because I couldn't remember when each week's raids began & ended. Was why I was just "announce a rerun" and "for its duration" vague posting.

I also think that's what happened with mewtwo the first time? It was announced for Pokemon Day but didn't actually run for another couple weeks (or even a month later?)

SWSH's 2020 Mewtwo raid was dropped right on Pokemon Day. The SV Mew/Mewtwo leadup was through August-September 2023.

EDIT: The Pokemon Day event for 2023 was technically both 7-star Pikachu in the days leading up to the 27th with a shortened timeframe and then Walking Wake/Iron Leaves shadow dropped with an update after the stream.

 

[Sprig (Meowscarada)]

I preordered LeafGreen for my Switch!