{"id":555,"date":"2026-04-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=555"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:00:00","slug":"pokemon-champions-is-off-to-a-rough-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Champions is off to a rough start"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kajima, a luchador-styled character in Pok\u00e9mon Champions, stands in front of the player with an Incineroar at his side. He says, \u201cShake the Battle Arena to its foundations, you hear?\u201d\" data-caption=\"You first, dude. | Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Nintendo\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Nintendo\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/IMG_3487.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tYou first, dude. | Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Nintendo\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Like many live-service games before it, <em>Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/em>&#8216; launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pokemon_Champs\/status\/2042319804430717245\">plagued with bugs<\/a>, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics &#8211; not great for a game that&#8217;s <em>only<\/em> about battling. But bugs can be fixed, and encouragingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.pokemon-home.com\/ja\/page\/758.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some of them already have been<\/a>. <em>Champions<\/em>&#8216; bigger problem is that, in trying to be a competitive battling platform for all kinds of players, it risks satisfying none of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Coming hot on the heels of <em>Pokopia<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/885431\/pokemon-pokopia-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a creative and cozy spinoff with no battling whatsoever<\/a>, <em>Champions<\/em> \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/910110\/pokemon-champions-bugs-balance-issues-vgc-newcomers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You first, dude. | Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Nintendo Like many live-service games before it, Pok\u00e9mon Champions&#8216; launch has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}