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

According to the Japanese website, Home's 4.0 update is coming in Spring 2026.
The infographic shows off Champions so, I guess April for that too


The japanese website also has a few, ah, interesting articles
https://news.pokemon-home.com/ja/page/716.html

This one says you send pokemon from home on an "expedition" to Champions (probably a quirk of auto-translate). More relevantly, sending specifically Greninja, Mawile, Eternal Floette and a fourth one i already closed the tab on gets you their mega stones, with notes about how they have to be from Z-A specifically and can currently only be obtained in this way but might become available in the shope later

https://news.pokemon-home.com/ja/page/718.html

And this one, which is giving everyone in Champions a free Dragonite.
And the mega stone is from...the first season's battle pass (might be in the shop later too, from a footnote)


And reconfirmation that no you can't transfer Pokemon from Champions into Home.

It's Greninja/Delphox/Chesnaught/Eternal Floette for the former.

This tweet reveals their mega abilities are Protean/Levitate/Bulletproof.
 
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I love my chud son

Overall I'm very pleasantly surprised by this Presents, usually I think they're really badly paced but nothing felt too overwrought this time (except for the Mega Chomp Z reveal) and I'm genuinely feeling really excited for gen 10. 2027 release is genuinely kinda shocking, choosing to skip the 30th anniversary release date and gives me some hope they're really honing in on the game's performance.
 
also gecqua is another gecko when we had treecko
at least browt is a different bird than rowlet and piplup
At least Treecko and Gecqua are different types of pokemon entirely, so the gecko reuse isn't as bad IMO. Because if we suddenly said that we aren't allowed to have any other gecko pokemon because of Treecko that would limit creativity.

My issue is more that this is the second time around we've had a grass bird for a starter, and a water lizard for a starter.

Hopefully their future evolutions will pick the lines up a bit.
 
They're pulling a Scarlet and Violet again with that huh.
As long as they let me ACTUALLY CHANGE CLOTHES i'm fine.

I love SV but man the fact the customization for the char clothes was practically nonexistant outside of the DLC outfits still irks me.
Praise ZA for fixing it (though man, what the hell is a "skort", like, do those really exist or did they come up with those just to not make actual skirts, cause I never ever saw one of those irl)
 
ok so fill disclosure i didnt watch the presents live all the way through but i did catch this screenshot
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Is this game gonna actually have robust single player content or
They're from what is likely the intro movie

So apparently they shadow dropped a Champions trailer and DIDNT PUT IT IN THE PRESENTS

Who runs their marketing christ

I wouldn't say "robust single player content" but there's probably something at least on par with PBR
 
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